Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially increased over the past decades. These developments have been associated with a number of other worrying statistics, including low intergenerational social mobility and weak real...

Purpose: We analyse the impact of different public policies on inequality, unemployment, growth and the tax burden. In this purpose, we build a dynamic general equilibrium model in which growth is driven by endogenous technical progress to analyse the impacts of several policies (Minimum wage;...