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 …

compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by … evaluating access across the region?s physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …

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

income and inequality in both countries. …

agents and a welfare state redistributing income. The redistribution scheme is financed by a progressive income tax and gives … capita but also to higher income inequality on two fronts. Inter-group inequality between managers and workers increases, and … intra-group inequality within the group of managers goes up as well. We show that for a given tax rate, there is an …

Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income … accompanied by developments in redistribution into the opposite direction. This paper argues that it is important to distinguish … skewness. In a model with imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While polarization …

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 …