Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining …

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the … negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ?poverty? and inequality? and …

high-income households. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and the median … tariff rate over the tax rate to inequality and a set of control variables such as GDP per capita, openness, the degree of …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can … inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by examining panel data for 36 developing and developed countries for the … 1980-1997 period. We find significant evidence supporting our prediction that inequality has a large influence on the …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the …