convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … if that was achievable. The non-income elements of poverty, on the other hand, are more directly open to influence by … the alleviation of non-income poverty. There is a further possibility that the same institutional forces would also …

the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel … channel of income inequality and political campaign contributions on party polarization on the value dimension that is … independent of changing voter preferences. In a model of two-dimensional party competition, I show analytically how rising income …

parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …

skill acquisition extremes in one country, and simultaneous expansion of middle-income industries in another. Individual … ; skill acquisition ; education ; income distribution …

calculate social welfare weights by income level using the inverse optimal-tax method. We find that all political parties …-benefit system. We argue that political-economy considerations are key in understanding the political status quo and why middle-income … groups are able to lower their tax burdens at the expense of both the low- and high-income groups. …

Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income … aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis drawing from unique data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for … unemployment in a recession drawing upon a heterogeneous set of both income and middle-class definitions as well as an extensive …