heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state-level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary … and redistribution in the study are ethnic and religious polarization and fractionalization measures. Findings – It is …

heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state‐level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary … and redistribution in the study are ethnic and religious polarization and fractionalization measures. Findings – It is …

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter chooses redistribution contributing to abatement …, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality …, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment, and it dampens the effect …

according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …, as well as the specific inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … 'the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.' That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …

period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our model is a mechanism of redistribution, and we find that the link …In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective … between inequality and inflation within any period or over time depends on institutional and preference related parameters …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …