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 …

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 …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … positively correlated with both lifetime earnings and parents' socio-economic status. …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …

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

persists for PIT reductions, while the overall effects on inequality and progressivity become lower when payroll taxes are …