When analyzing potential ways to counter climate change, standard models of green growth abstract from investment in … efficiency imposed by thermodynamic laws. In this paper, I develop a growth model that explicitly accounts for endogenous … trigger a full transformation toward green growth. …

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain …

income inequality during periods of private debt overhang. In contrast, there are no discernible distributional effects when …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …

the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …

. My results show that decreasing the degree of tracking in early secondary school can reduce inequality while increasing …