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 …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

inequality and it’s change during the 2004-2010 period in EU Member States. The analysis uses EU-SILC data to study the … components of income inequality and its change both during years of economic growth (2004-2007) and during years of economic … 2004 and 2007 inequality of market income declined, most importantly in countries with important gains in employment, while …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

safety at given own-income. The own-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …

public safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern …

explores the relationship between income growth and income inequality using data at the municipal level in Sweden for the … period 1992-2007. We estimate a fixed effects panel data growth model, where the within-municipality income inequality is one … of the explanatory variables. Different inequality measures (Gini coefficient, top income shares, and measures of …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … ‘inequality convergence’ with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …