effects on economic inequality and welfare. For that purpose we built a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model capable … to an increase of inequality during the initial transition period, reversing to more compressed distributions as the …

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …

Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only …

: They cannot afford to buy private insurance, they are not covered by social insurance, and they are not entitled to social … assistance. Therefore, micro-insurance schemes have built up in many countries to fill the gap and reduce the vulnerability of … people in the informal sector. The question is how much micro-insurance can do in this regard: To what degree can micro-insurance …