assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion …

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that … significant increases in annual earnings inequality for both male and female employees. On most measures this is greater for men …. When wider inequality is measured including periods of no earnings, inequality for men increases and for women it falls as …

socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can beshown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich tothe poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo... …

This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inequality, and growth, both from a …