The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …

' consumption. Like in studies of income and wealth inequality, we also see a slight upward trend in consumption inequality that …

concentration indices for socioeconomic inequality in health based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is presented … WORDS: Inequality, Health, Social Capital, European Community Household Panel, Ordered probit. JEL CATEGORY: D31, D63, I10 …

We investigate the effects of wealth inequality on the incentives to contribute to a public good or a team output when … agents are inequity averse. We show that inequality may increase total output when it favors the more able agents. Moreover …, the more inequity averse the agents, the larger should be the inequality in wealth if total output is to be maximized. …

This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … model predicts a positive relationship between corruption and inequality, and a negative relationship between corruption and …