inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

differences. Finally, we find that inequality in human capital distribution increases in time and that, in the long run …, inequality always promotes growth. …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …