Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to … developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for … developing countries. Yet, literature on worker remittances has so far focused mainly on the impact of remittances on income …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …