Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional … literature-a single inequality indicator. Results suggest that total income inequality and institutional trust are positively … associated but this aggregated result hides some troubling countervailing effects. In fact, when the whole profile of inequality …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …. We also present less robust evidence that countries with a transfer programme experience higher inequality. …