change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as … large as the change in the standard Gini measure over the period of interest. …

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. …

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 …