This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …

widely used operational definition – the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country … indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the … Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of …' contributions to employment or value-added of the gross domestic product (GDP). On the other hand, within-country inequality tends …

inequality as the price of unobserved skills (the standard deviation of the residuals) into their decomposition equation. …

for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … and mobility decisions, population growth, and income disparities across and within countries. First, our static … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation …