-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …

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 …

An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

examines in detail their distributional impact and finds that they led to increases in inequality and (relative) poverty. The … result is stronger in the case of inequality indices that are relatively more sensitive to changes close to the bottom of the …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …