and inequality. The reason is that product market integration enhances export possibilities through easier access to …

may in-duce dramatic changes in political outcomes and greater inequality pronounces the interest-rate effect and may lead …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

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

Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very … inequality due to changes in the wage earnings component is mitigated by changes in the tax and transfer components in both … in the tax component to lowering the growth of inequality in the Czech Republic, while the reverse was true for Slovakia. …

‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … US. There are two potential explanations. First, Europeans prefer more equal societies (inequality belongs in the utility … ideological lines. There is evidence of ‘inequality generated’ unhappiness in the US only for a sub-group of rich leftists. In …

theoretical model in which it is positively related to income inequality, more so under weak institutions, and is negatively … informal sector, income inequality, and institutional quality. The results are shown to be robust with respect to a variety of …