We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …

In the age of globalization, the question whether inequality in the world rose or fell down, is a hot topic. Leading … scholars in the field of economic inequality measurement developed methods to estimate empirically the distribution of welfare … no doubt that world inequality went down between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, has in fact calculated population …

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where … findings suggest that horizontal inequality is a dimension which policy makers should take into account when reforming tax and …

This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that … regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in … growth. We explore how inequality interplays with pressing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, areas that …

point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the … present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty measures which …

as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such …