Research on Economic Inequality's 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.

Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under...

Contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. This title includes measuring segregation, welfare and liberty, the use of influence functions in distributional analysis, and the axiomatic approach to...

Contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 27. This work covers topics including welfare analysis with ordinal data, unit consistency and multidimensional ine

The first five papers in this volume focus on Latin American poverty and inequality, an understudied topic. Additional papers from around the world focus on issues such as: relative deprivation; taxation and inequality; mobility dominance; polarization; estimation of child costs; nutritional...

Eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the...