. Policymakers should consider the links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … distribution by providing sources of income for unemployed and marginalized workers. Despite this positive feedback, informality …

heterogeneity. When altruism heterogeneity is low, income inequality follows an inverse U-shaped pattern relative to the level of … altruism, which is consistent with the cross-country Kuznets curve. When altruism heterogeneity is high, income inequality … linking economic growth and income inequality. …

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 …

Many societies today are experiencing growing inequality in terms of wealth, income, health, education, resources or …, participants were more likely to cooperate when inequality of initial payments was perceived as fair, and less likely to contribute … when inequality was perceived as unfair. We disentangle the effects of inequality and fairness on behavior, and underscore …

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 …

national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, attention concerning inequality as a risk factor has risen. Nevertheless … studies, focusing on the implications of inequality as a collective risk, remain seldom. Therefore the following paper will … discuss why inequality is indeed a collective risk, leading to a social dilemma as known from game theory. The first section …