poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … and economic growth. Developing countries on the other hand, especially countries in Asia are in the process of shifting … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for …

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … pandemic, exhibit lower inequality aversion in terms of health and income, compared to those who have not experienced these … shocks. Comparing levels of health and income inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 we find a …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …

-paying jobs. This led to a dramatic increase in inequality in labor earnings during the pandemic. Simulating standard unemployment … the pandemic associated UI and CARES benefits, reversing the increases in labor earnings inequality. These lower income …

national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … same inequality perceptions and distributional norms …

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 …