: inequality and polarisation. A new middle class index (MCI), based on polarisation methods, is used to assess the evolution of … and its connection with inequality. To this purpose Brazil's income distribution is explored from two dimensions … prevented the achievement of high inequality values and the emergence of a middle class. Then in the early twentieth century …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …