has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the … case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India … versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one …, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual issues further cloud the picture. The claim that global inequality has … inequality is found to be rising if one or more of the following conditions holds: (i) one attaches a high ethical weight to the …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …