Individual sales prices and local vacancy rates in the housing market pose a natural analogy to the wage curve, a … popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local unemployment. While housing … search and matching models and housing externalities strongly suggest a stable inverse relationship, there is still a lack of …

estimate changes in household welfare, inequality and social welfare corresponding to different reforms. First, we find that an … income inequality and decreases social welfare. …

Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant … empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by … which housing deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects and the effects of the individual dwelling unit …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …