fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

save dynastically and middle income households who save for retirement. We find that inequality is reduced the higher the … efficiency and inequality: middle income households’ consumption is maximal at a higher capital tax rate than high income …

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. …

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using … indicate that income-based inequality has increased due to the VAT adoption, whereas consumption inequality has remained …

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 …