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

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 … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … construct long-term incomes over a 20-year period. Results show that annual, cross-sectional inequality is higher than … inequality in the long-run, but the effect of redistribution is also larger annually than in the long-term. Depending on age the …

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 …

: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …