inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can be shown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries.Such a cumulative process shapes …