Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data … used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the administrative data from the …

importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the … computed over varying time horizons in order to examine how the effect on measured inequality as the time horizon is increased … is extended up to four years, reducing wage inequality by 12-26%. We proceed therefore with more detailed examination of …

distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of …

This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in …

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data …