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

That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on … endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … wealth inequality. Housing price increases display a hump shaped pattern over the net wealth distribution, with the poorest …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

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 …

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