helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …

Does uncertainty of labor earning over the life-time increase income inequality? - This paper finds that there is a … direct positive relationship between life-time uncertainty and income inequality. Earlier studies single out the effect of … their rapid economic growth, inequality has been decreased in those countries. The degree of earning uncertainty can be …

premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …

In well-functioning democracies, the policymaking process should in principle respond to persistent economic inequality … that elected representatives eventually supply through policies designed to alleviate inequality. Policymaking constraints … explanations for the continuing high inequality observed in the region. Countries with stronger democracies have adopted more …

Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is …-regarding motives. This study follows prior theorization presuming that the effect of inequality is transmitted through normative value … judgements, but argues that a central point has been neglected. Individuals support a certain level of inequality caused by …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …