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 …

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 …

This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and …, and institutional factors have played a significant role in the inequality trend. However, most of the trend is … variation across locations (states or cities) in the United States in the local level of "residual inequality." The evidence …

-sectional inequality. …

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 …