Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However …, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political … decision making. Society has to choose both the tax rate and the allocation of the revenues between income redistribution and …

Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …

Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality froma demographic point of view. In an … inequality is at first positive and then may benegative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with …

Inequality measures are powerful tools of applied welfare analysis. However, to use the tools effectively one has to … statistical problems which are addressed here for both micro-data and grouped data. The theoretical properties of inequality …