incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …

measurement of inequality and social welfare. In particular, we show that the more progressive a tax system, the more equal the … system, the greater the degree of relative inequality aversion, the greater the progressivity index. We also discuss the link … between inequality of gross income and tax progressivity. A by-product is the derivation of a general class of inequality …

This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …

the dynamic of inequality, polarization and progressivity of the fiscal system. The results of this study confirm the … effectiveness of governmental redistributive mechanism to decrease inequality and polarization significantly and to maintain the …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …

increase in inequality induces an increase in environmental standard. In the second model, the environmental standard is chosen … by a corrupt bureaucrat. In that model, while the impact of an increase in inequality on the environmental standard is …