Bruttoarbeitseinkommens über die gesamte Einkommensverteilung hinweg niederschlägt. Das Steuer-Transfer-System und diskretionäre …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

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 …

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the … differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …