by applying post-reform tax rules on pre-reform data, do not predict any substantial increase in income inequality due to … the tax reform of 1992. However, we find a significant post-reform increase in observed income inequality, while average … income is about unaltered in the period. The increased inequality might be explained by the high income earners' response to …

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …

In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries … for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

The overall inequality effects of a dual income tax (DIT) system, combining progressive taxation of labor income with … complicate the analysis. We trace out what can be said definitively, obtaining sufficient conditions for unambiguous inequality …