We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect …

and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages …

relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting … favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility is associated with more Left-wing attitudes …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …