evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …

inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study … propose a new measure of individual mobility and use it to assess the degree of inequality of opportunity for mobility, that …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The … inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

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 …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …