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 …

metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social … cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of inequality - heterogeneity in income below the national level. We … inequality between and within countries. In particular, we demonstrate that climate and distributional policy cannot be separated …

generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …

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 …

capital in advanced economies. It synthesizes empirical evidence on worker displacement, productivity, and income inequality …

. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the …

This paper introduces life expectancy inequality into a tractable Mirrleesian life-cycle model and characterizes the …