in the Netherlands by a flat rate will harm labour market performance if aggregate income inequality is contained. This …

This paper studies the redistribution and welfare effects of increasing the flexibility of individual pension take … scheme contains within-cohort redistribution and induces early retirement. Such a Pareto-improving reform entails the …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality … contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …

inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and … collective risk. The results show that people are averse towards ex ante inequality and individual risk, whereas they are ex post …