exemptions. Pensions are more equally distributed than income received from employment, and intra-cohort inequality does not seem … to be a more convincing explanation. What is the impact of differential taxation on the inequality between retirees and …

In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to … assume a direct relationship between the distribution of income and social welfare. As a result, this relationship is … formally summarized by a single function, called a reduced-form social welfare function. Hence, with reference to some transfer …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by … evaluating access across the region?s physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

The paper is about the political consequences of increasing economic inequality in Western economies. Political … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy. …