Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … regressions, after a number of robustness checks, indicate that NUTS 2 regions are converging to higher level of income inequality …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … level of income inequality, so becoming equally more unequal. Second, this process is significantly faster when regions …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …

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

' concern with income inequality, and (iv) the proportionality of the electoral rule. A number of comparative statics … rule, which amount to say that income inequality rises as policymaking power gets more concentrated in the majority winning …

inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …

The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate … this paper is to review the existing literature on inequality and redistribution, to explicate the theoretical causal … find robust evidence that income inequality affects redistribution. However, the precise degree of this relationship …

interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no … comparative evidence as to whether this discontent is the consequence of localised interpersonal inequality or stagnant growth in … interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …