the book covers a range of technical aspects of inequality measurement, including less well-known properties of inequality … indices, and the decomposition of inequality changes into component contributions. The second half explores various aspects of …

It is often argued that an observation of rising annual income inequality need not have negative normative implications …. The argument is that if there has been a sufficiently large simultaneous increase in mobility, the inequality of income … measured over a longer time period can be lower despite the rise in annual inequality. In this paper, it is shown by example …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …