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 …

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 …

inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

distribution. I use the estimates to decompose the overall effect of transfers on wealth inequality in the effect of the aggregated … very much in line with the literature, indicating that transfers tend to equalize wealth inequality, despite minor …

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

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 …