effects on growth and on the evolution of income inequality; (ii) raising the consumption tax generates about as much economic … reduces inequality by more than utilizing the consumption tax. Hence, there is growth-inequality trade-off. …

neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

importance of initial parental conditions (i.e. the driving force behind the persistence of inequality) enhances mobility and … inequality becomes more persistent. The reduction in the concentration of human capital in technologically-advanced sectors …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a … differences across households and leads to long run equality, while below the threshold, inequality is high and persists more …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …

This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We …, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and thereby leading to new patterns of wage inequality. Specifically, our …