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 …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income … matched personal-firm income tax records, we find that trends are sensitive to the data source and inequality measure. Gini …

parents. We also find that the higher educational costs incurred by younger generations is far outweighed by their lifetime …

on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain …

. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …