. 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 …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

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 …