Traditional economic theories assume that individuals only care about their own income when it comes to supporting redistribution policies. However, an international team of researchers from the ...

What are people’s beliefs and preferences about the wage levels of CEOs, politicians, doctors, unskilled workers, and the average full-time worker? In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals ...

The Netherlands is often cited as proof that high taxes can reduce inequality. But the data tells a more complicated story.

This article argues that social patterns of inequality and structures of partisan competition play central roles in shaping support for redistribution, offering three important insights concerning ...

Although it’s been fifteen years since the Great Recession, the social, political, and economic problems it revealed are still very much with us. Historically astronomical levels of income inequality ...

There are a few facts that will always get a reaction of confusion and disbelief. No one knows where eels come from. The Renaissance began in an Italy with no tomatoes. Global inequality is falling.

This week in French Connections, we focus on wealth in France. According to traditional macroeconomic measures, France is a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Income inequality can lead to slower or less sustainable economic growth, while redistribution of income, when measured, does not hurt and can even help an economy, IMF staff ...

Back in the 1990s, whining about the impending disaster from the retirement of baby boomer cohorts was all the rage. Private equity billionaire Peter Peterson’s polemics were big sellers, as very ...