European societies have been experiencing growing income and wealth inequalities over the past few decades, and, accordingly, they are a topic of intense discussion. Although the population’s evaluation of inequalities as just or unjust is important for designing social policies, there has...

In den letzten Jahren ist soziale Ungleichheit immer mehr in das Zentrum der (…) Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Soziale Ungleichheit hat viele Gesichter, ihr harter Kern ist aber die Einkommensungleichheit. Die Vorlesungen beruhen auf der Auswertung der soziologischen, ökonomischen und...

This paper presents evidence of a new propagation mechanism for wealth inequality, based on differential responses, by education, to greater inequality at the start of economic life. It is motivated by a novel positive cross-country relationship between wealth inequality and perceptions of...