comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …

scenario in which offshoring explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the …, amplifying the rise in inequality. The model outcomes are consistent with all the developments of the German economy since 1995 … comes with both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The setting of the labour market reform reduces unemployment …

of German data which causes significant increases of income inequality compared with income-independent, constant … equivalence scales. (2) Concerning different demarcations of income areas the pattern of income inequality in Germany 1995-2009 is … not distinctively changed in the several variants considered. (3) For three alternative inequality indicators out of the …

income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on …, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …

economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This … article surveys the key mechanisms of the globalization-inequality relationship. Four strands of literature are reviewed … generate most of the observed facts on trade and inter-skill group inequality, but also between unequally talented workers …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly … display rather conflicting results. Most cross-country studies find a weak impact of globalization on income inequality. In … correlation between openness and the relative demand for skill and inequality. These apparently conflicting findings reflect the …