This paper investigates how people differentiate between inequality caused by talent and inequality caused by luck in a … large-scale study of the US population. We establish that people distinguish significantly between inequality due to luck … and inequality due to talent, even when controlling for their beliefs about the extent to which these factors are within …

flows and the domestic economic performances when explicitly accounting for wealth inequality on imperfect capital markets …

We present a theoretical framework that links trust, trustworthiness and inequality. It is assumed that an individual … decreases when interpersonal income differences increase. As a consequence, inequality affects trust via the individual …-specific perception of inequality which might not coincide with aggregate measures of inequality like the Gini coefficient. We work out …

results suggest that there is room for harmonization of economic environments across countries regarding decreasing inequality …

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality … countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality …

This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while … scale, the effect of inequality on emissions should vary depending on the level of income per capita. Specifically, for a … policies, and thus, lower inequality is beneficial for the environment. With nonhomothetic preferences, the beneficial …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality … shock increases the profit share and the within-workers inequality (in real terms), since low-wage workers are more affected …

policy may have contributed to the persistent growth in income inequality in Japan, as measured by metrics such as the Gini …