, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an …, larger market inequality has been accompanied by a reduction in transfers, thus leading to growth in disposable income … inequality. In our model, the initial level of market income inequality is crucial in explaining how an increase in this variable …

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …

the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …