can thus increase inequality in the long-run. Depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and unskilled … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reduc …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …

capital in advanced economies. It synthesizes empirical evidence on worker displacement, productivity, and income inequality …

Against a backdrop of sharply rising inequality, the Tokyo Round of the GATT resulted in a 1.6 percentage point … the first evidence of its effects on imports and inequality. Instrumented tariff reductions explain 17% of the within …-industry rise in income inequality between skilled and unskilled workers between 1979 and 1988. This effect is largest in more …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …

greater wealth inequality. …

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers- an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the … inequality. …

income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …, whereas regional income inequality also depends on the magnitude of the productivity gap of low-skilled relative to high …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …

these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non … significantly overestimate the rise in real inequality. Moreover, we show that the allowance for non-homotheticity is quantitatively … inequality when there is segregation in consumption / production, by which we mean that people’s consumption patterns are skewed …