belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

This paper seeks to examine the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies. We first use a simplified … remains robust across various alternative measures of income inequality and most importantly through alternative political … regimes. In addition, our analysis investigates the role of the tax structure on the relationship between income inequality …

, demand, and labour market institutions to examine their effects on the trend in wage inequality. I address possible concerns … autonomy and their variations over time. In explaining the evolution of wage inequality, both market and non-market factors …

investment, consumption, inequality and the capital account. The growth trajectory of the apartheid and post-apartheid periods …

fractionalization, is associated with a greater probability of group exit. Results for within-group economic inequality suggest, however …, that inequality is associated with a decrease in the probability of exit, but at a diminishing rate. …

overarching definitions of social capital, along with institutions, inequality, and education are consistently significant …

This paper simulates the effects of the recent economic crisis on income inequality and poverty in Italy. We impute … fund that has played a crucial role during the crisis. Our simulations suggest that the crisis has increased inequality and …