We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region … a paucity of representative datasets containing linked information on parents and children, the inequality of …-post conception of inequality of opportunity are introduced to address this shortcoming. They yield a set of new inequality of …

This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …

impact is equalizing for direct taxes and unequalizing for indirect taxes. Overall, redistribution through taxes, without … of the corporate income tax contributes to improve redistribution and accounts for better comparison with the …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …