the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity of inequality in the country? To answer this, the paper, grounded in … new institutionalism theory, employed a process-tracing method to explore the causes of the continuity of unequal income …

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

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 …

proved to be enough to shed light on the length and timing before high inequality implies regime change. Thus, this work may …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …