inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … to offer an efficient policy options for Asian countries. Major determinant factors of growing inequality, poverty and a …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …

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