acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … effect into vertical and horizontal effects and Lerman and Yitzhaki’s (1985) decomposition of marginal changes in income … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …

) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re … yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for …

wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact …

capital city is positively associated with better governance and more redistribution (proxied by post-tax inequality), in OLS …

of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that … there is a natural relationship between the group’s probability of victory and the Atkinson index of inequality. If members …

for redistribution are influenced by individual beliefs on the origins of social inequality and public values. The first … rationality” depended on beliefs concerning individual responsibility in the creation of inequality. This model is then confronted …