This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of income inequality. The study analyzes gender ...

In a panel regression framework, we find that labor income growth, formalization, and schooling contributed to the decline in inequality during 2004-14, but redistributive policies, such as Bolsa ...

The ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, authorizing a federal income tax, emerged from a confluence of economic inequality, populist discontent and the limitations of relying on tariffs ...