–can be welfare improving, because it increases the supply of labor and therefore (holding government spending constant …

efficiency-enhancing redistribution improves everyone’s welfare including the welfare of those whose labor finances the …

In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to … assume a direct relationship between the distribution of income and social welfare. As a result, this relationship is … formally summarized by a single function, called a reduced-form social welfare function. Hence, with reference to some transfer …

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and …

Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour … income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates. Individual labour income … inequality is the main driver of household market income inequality, with family formation as well as self-employment and capital …