This article reviews various issues linked to the rise in inequality observed in a number of
countries, particularly developed countries, over the past quarter century. Various sources of …

This chapter reviews the use of microsimulation in understanding income inequality. The
primary added value of microsimulation models is the capacity to simulate counterfactual …

We study reforms of nonlinear income tax systems from a political economy perspective. We
present a median voter theorem for monotonic tax reforms, reforms so that the change in the …

Tax‐benefit policies affect changes in household incomes through two main channels:
discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilizers. We study their role in the EU …

This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and
increasing educational attainment) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in …

This paper studies the sensitivity of long-run trends in top income shares to differences in top-
share measures. While the standard measure fixes a share of the population, we define …

The structure of the Italian personal income tax has undergone several important changes
since its introduction in 1974, following a path similar to those in other advanced economies …

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and top income inequality under
the influence of human and physical capital accumulation, using an annual panel of US …

Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor
Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty …

We derive a novel measure of household income stabilization and analyze how reforms of
tax-benefit systems in the period 2007–2014 have affected the workings of automatic …