policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using …

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries … for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of information … access in schools unconditionally promote adult literacy. The corresponding inequality threshold that should not be exceeded …

What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about … inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example …,731 U.S. citizens, we show that a majority of respondents believe that inequality leads to a wide range of negative societal …