poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … to offer an efficient policy options for Asian countries. Major determinant factors of growing inequality, poverty and a …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of … countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller impact on actual … inequality, approximated by consumption-based GINIs. We show empirically that the differential effect on observed vs. actual …

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these … implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity …. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity …

We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey … spatial inequality. Because relative supply of college versus high school educated workers has risen faster at the spatial … level in places with higher initial supply levels, we also report a strong persistence and increased inequality of spatial …

and has a substantial influence on inequality of opportunity country orderings. Growth regressions also illustrate the …

Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence …