estimation and quantitative implications of the Melitz (2003) trade model? The benchmark Melitz model with Pareto … intensive margin, contradicting the benchmark Melitz-Pareto model. We find that moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution … the estimated model. Finally, we compare these effects to those that would be predicted by the Melitz-Pareto model, with …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

Like in many other countries, wealth inequality has increased in Switzerland over the last fifty years. By providing …

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

inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example …,731 U.S. citizens, we show that a majority of respondents believe that inequality leads to a wide range of negative societal … video information treatments. With this and other methods we show that inequality externality beliefs impact redistributive …

heterogeneity. When altruism heterogeneity is low, income inequality follows an inverse U-shaped pattern relative to the level of … altruism, which is consistent with the cross-country Kuznets curve. When altruism heterogeneity is high, income inequality … linking economic growth and income inequality. …

Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects …

slavery affects inequality (like Bertocchi and Dimico, 2014), white Americans’ political attitudes towards race (like Acharya … et al., 2016b) and black American’s political attitudes – in opposite directions. Results suggest that inequality and …

What sparked humanity’s leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality—the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …