In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can be shown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo. …

Do rising inequality and youth unemployment aect preferences for redistribution? Using country-level European survey … data from 2002 to 2015, I show that changes in market inequality and the rise of (youth) unemployment increase preferences … market income inequality and (youth) unemployment. The preferences of the relatively rich and healthy are more responsive to …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

The analysis of inequality is placed in the context of recent developments in economics and statistics. …

' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents …

' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …