In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …

We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children, such that the evolution of inequality is … education of their children, which partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces inequality in the short run. The better …