The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate … wealth differences raise aggregate profit and output but entail distributional utility losses and increased inequality. … microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into macroeconomic outcomes. Increasing the workers' sensitivity to inequality …

analyze the role of wealth, in addition to income, as one dimension of multidimensional well-being. In addition we analyze the …

Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand … importance of multigenerational social mobility analyses to examine equal opportunities in society. Overall, we conclude that our … surname-based approach is suitable to investigate society's multigenerational permeability. …

of income derived from non-agricultural activities and household wealth as well as total household income. Survival …-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have …

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 …

income inequality in the long run. Small scale Kuznets curves, driven by sectoral business cycles, may also be detected in …-growth steady state. Although the long-term trend is one of decreasing inequality, small-scale Kuznets curves may be detected even … underlying factors of inequality, and the evolution of a more comprehensive measure of inequality than the one normally used, are …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …