Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …

-economic inequality and not on the outcome of this process. …

We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada …, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median … fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the earnings distribution becomes thicker with age, and (3) the growth …

. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect …

'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising inequality accompanied by an increase in both unemployment …

for those at the bottom of the income scale? Will ARRA reverse the upward trend in inequality that we have seen in the … creation, ARRA is likely to have little impact on overall income inequality, or on the income gaps between relatively …

by personal inequality, capital intensity and trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and … inequality, although financialisation is the most important factor in absolute terms. In the post-Great Recession years of tense …