deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals … gender. We find that the POUM effect could increase or decrease the support for redistribution depending on the parameters of … of the POUM effect in Italy. -- social mobility ; income distribution ; political economy ; inequality ; taxation …

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance … countries. Using Thailand's tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings …

This paper examines how perceptions of social mobility affect acceptance of inequality. We conduct a randomized … pessimistic perceptions change neither revealed distributional preferences nor support for greater redistribution or education …