Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

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 …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality …Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our …

between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

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. …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …