voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also …We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a …

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

IA is the Government of British Columbia’s largest income assistance program, with an annual cost of just over $2B and … all people. These reforms will also help reduce income poverty rates and poverty depths, preventing poverty, and help …

In several OECD countries, ongoing fiscal consolidation might have a negative impact on the static income distribution … distributional effects of consolidation packages would need to consider dynamic measures, such as life-time income distribution and … certain tax expenditures, hiking taxes on immovable property and broadly-based consumption taxes. Increases in capital income …

Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric …. Counterfactual densities are constructed by reweighting the income distribution with propensity score functions that reflect changes …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not …