Change in income inequality in Taiwan from 1964 to 1995 is sensitive to how household incomes are adjusted for … the widely noted increase in income inequality from 1980 to 1995, and calls into question whether income inequality … demographic transition has contributed only slightly to increasing income inequality across all ages. The entry of women into the …

Given that well-being is a concave function of income, inequality is inefficient from a utilitarian perspective. This …

We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …

wages tend to increase (i) unemployment, (ii) functional income inequality, and (iii) personal income inequality. We further …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

will certainly not worsen income inequality. While the United States as a whole would benefit from the TPP, there is a case …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …