This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and …

the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in …

proved to be enough to shed light on the length and timing before high inequality implies regime change. Thus, this work may …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID …-level inequality at the start of the pandemic. The results show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic were instrumental … in driving the incidence of protests, but only in counties with high levels of inequality before the start of the …

inequality is expected to prevail in our soci- eties, high levels of it are objectionable on various grounds. One of the … inequality. We find that disagreement across socio-economic groups arise not so much on whether the government should tackle … inequality, but on how it should go about doing it. Poorer respondents tend to support cash transfers to a greater extent than …

This paper develops a model where income inequality and intergenerational mo- bility are jointly determined via … inequality and mobility consistent with empirical ob- servations. …

This Paper develops a model of political consensus in order to explain the missing link between inequality and …-interested politicians propose non-discriminatory policies. We study how much inequality can be sustained in a democracy and how the limits … to redistribution vary with initial inequality. We find that the bounds of the set of political equilibria may react in a …

This paper develops a model where income inequality and intergenerational mobility are jointly determined via … inequality and mobility consistent with empirical observations. …