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 …

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 an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …

evidence of gene-environment interactions. While we find some assortative mating based on genetic factors, differentially …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and its underlying sources. We exploit nationally representative longitudinal … relative contribution of each socioeconomic factor to the total estimated socioeconomic inequality. Our results suggest that …

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. -- Inequality ; income distribution …