framework, with a focus on inherent inequality and government’s redistributive preferences. We have constructed our income … relationship between factor-income inequality and the extent of redistribution. We also find a link between our redistributive …

inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …

the link between market inequality and redistribution is even stronger when using perceived inequality measures. We …

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment, and it dampens the effect …

' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents …