Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …

evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …

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

actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of … countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller impact on actual … inequality, approximated by consumption-based GINIs. We show empirically that the differential effect on observed vs. actual …

by an increasing income inequality, we find that the middle class declined and income polarization increased. In the …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …