Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …

Earnings inequality and job polarization have increased significantly in several countries since the early 1990s. Using … inequality, especially at the bottom of the distribution. Job polarization accounts for a large share of the increasing … inequality between the 10th and the 50th percentiles, but it explains little or none of the increasing inequality between the 50 …

decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent … direct effect of minimum wages on inequality was muted …

into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile …

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus … evolution of inequality of opportunity is measured for a period of about two decades for the whole populations, as well as for … different birth cohorts. Relative inequality of opportunity represents an important portion of total income inequality, with …

In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, several cross …-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and … exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation. A special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, which this paper …

disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …

least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and … microeconomic approach, in particular, builds on the observation that growth, changes in poverty, and changes in inequality are …

assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income inequality by 2030. This potential reduction can be fully accounted for by … suggest that the mid-1990s could be seen as a turning point after which global inequality began showing a negative tendency …