article analyzes how much childhood wealth and childhood income mediate BW disadvantages in adult life chances with Panel … with 18 outcomes, and measure income and wealth more rigorously. We find large BW disadvantages in most outcomes. Childhood … wealth and income mediate a substantial share of most BW disadvantages, although there are several significant BW …

. Recent empirical research shows that income and wealth inequalities in Eastern Europe since the fall of socialism increased … globalization coupled with relatively ungenerous income and wealth redistribution policies. …High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts …

remarkable effect on wealth inequality that is stronger than that of income differences. In Austria, Germany and Cyprus the …This paper investigates the sources of inequality in household gross and net wealth across eight euro area countries … contribution of real and financial assets inherited or received as gifts to gross and net wealth inequality attains about 40 per …

investment expensing brings about sizeable output gains and a nontrivial increase in after-tax income inequality. However, it … progressive consumption-based flat-tax scheme could achieve the goals of raising government income, stimulating the economy, and … results in aggregate welfare gains in steady state because the large deduction in the labor income tax acts as a boon for the …

improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy …

This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order … determinant factors and changes in income inequality. It is analyzed the role of returns, participation rates, occupational … to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro …

. Consequently, the distribution of wealth and income deteriorates inasmuch as people with high fortunes tend to have more …