This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

, in addition to outcomes that have two-player analogues, such as social efficiency and the inequality between self and … others. We expect that existing models of social motives can be improved if players are allowed to consider the inequality … between others. Results from two laboratory experiments confirm this: motives for the inequality between others were found …

inequality and on social welfare. We introduce a model of two regions, where individuals are differentiated by their ability and …, that increases in the rate of interregional redistribution need not generate neither reduced interregional inequality nor … higher social welfare, and secondly, that their effects are highly dependent on the initial state of the economy. In …

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 … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …