This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …

This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and … hand, household surveys do not accurately represent the wealthiest segment of the population, while tax records do; on the … income distributions for incomes below b (using household survey data) and above b (using tax records). Central to this …

The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …

involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …

poorest quintile of poorest half. The author tests the hypothesis using t9 observations drawn from household budget surveys …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data …