about the future, and attitudes about redistribution. We find that women, non-college educated, the unemployed, and those in …

on the demand and supply side have weakened redistribution over time and contributed to a new wave of populism. We …

indicators will support increased redistribution and reduce income inequality …Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical … work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a …

Growing regional inequality within countries has raised the perception that 'some places and people' are left behind … stylized facts on regional inequality for OECD countries. It shows that regional disparity in per-capita GDP is large (even … nationwide income inequality is associated with both rising within-region income inequality and widening average income across …

In this study, we document the decline in income inequality and a convergence in consumption patterns in Brazilian … regression framework, we find that labor income growth, formalization, and schooling contributed to the decline in inequality …

that the optimal progressivity increases unambiguously with growing income inequality. This conclusion holds up under … different assumptions about the efficiency cost of taxation and society’s aversion to inequality …

recent literature suggesting that inequality-reducing redistribution can enhance growth …This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that inequality in Poland increased markedly during the economic … transition. Income and consumption inequality actually declined in 1990-92 and rose only moderately above pre-transition levels …

Against the background of Mexico''s persistently high degree of inequality, this paper analyzes the country …