time earnings for three generation and data on educational attainments of four generations. We first do conventional … regressions and transition matrices for life time earnings measures and educational attainments adding variables for the … influence earnings and education. We then estimate the so called Becker-Tomes model using the educational attainment of the …

This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from …

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

We examine the relationship between changes in a country's public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU's Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general … inequality results in trade theory that are focused strictly on functional rather than household inequality. As an application of … the theoretical framework, we then examine the direct impact of inequality on a government's objective function. We nd …

This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads …. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower … large: an increase in the Gini coefficient of inequality by 1 (in a scale of 0-100), is associated in 2011 with a lower tax …

This note investigates the impact of greater income inequality on the tax base, on the defacto fiscal space, and the … sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2005 and in 2010, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a … large: a one standard deviation increase of inequality is associated with a lower tax base of 28 % GDP, and with a higher …