more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong … increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at … the core of this evolution. Since 1995, lower-tail inequality decreased, while upper-tail inequality increased at a slower …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …