between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …

We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality … inequality. Finally, while federal aid and insurance coverage can mitigate the direct impact of physical risks, their structure … research on the nexus between inequality and climate change. …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …