We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary … State contributes directly to a very large share of inequality. Factors associated to work in the public sector - wages and … and, taken as a whole, tends to increase inequality. Redistributive mechanisms that could reverse this inequality, such as …

; income distribution ; inequality ; microsimulation …In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …

under various inflation scenarios. We develop a tax micro-simulation model for the newly available Panel on Household …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … reduces overall inequality by almost 7 Gini points. This reduction is mainly driven by in-kind benefits while the impact of …

inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …