High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts … significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe … is about 3 percentage points higher than in the rest of Europe. This rise in inequality was initially driven by …

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

sozialer Gerechtigkeit Korrekturen fordern. So haben die Reallöhne in den vergangenen Jahren stagniert, teilweise sind sie …

experimental democracy. We design a two-period experiment in which subjects first choose a distributional scheme by majority voting … the effect of social immobility on choosing distributional regimes the experiment is conducted with and without a social … inequality perpetuated by social immobility is likely to undermine the general support for market-based systems. …

One of the standard predictions of the agency theory is that more incentives can be given to agents with lower risk … obtain that lower agent's risk aversion unambiguously leads to higher incentives when the technology function linking …

. In the upper income segment, in contrast, no negative effect of the income tax burden on perceived income justice is …