unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

can thus increase inequality in the long-run. Depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and unskilled … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reduc …