Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation / Serge-Christophe Kolm -- Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity :a comparison of the United States and Germany / Ingvild Alm(c)®as -- Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence :...

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series of original, timely and useful papers in applied welfare analysis. This volume contains fifteen papers on inequality theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation,...