public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can be shown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo. …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …

including net imputed rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears … to be a promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality …

measured by increased in real consumption expenditures. Inequality during 1993-99 improved slightly, but it has remained fairly … stable from the 1950s to the 1990s. There is little or not correlation between growth and inequality, and no strong … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality …

The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a …