caa a22 4500 605534535 CHVBK 20210128100843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10663-015-9288-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10663-015-9288-0 Atkinson Anthony Nuffield College, Oxford and INET at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford, UK aut Can we reduce income inequality in OECD countries? [Elektronische Daten] [Anthony Atkinson] The public debate about inequality has generated a sense of gloom and doom—that high levels of inequality are inevitable and that little can be done. The aim of this paper is to inject a more optimistic note. I argue that there have been periods in the past when income inequality was reduced and we can learn from these, that the textbook story of the causes of rising wage inequality—globalisation and technological change—has a more optimistic interpretation; and that, whereas wages are a major part of household incomes, but there are other important determinants where it is possible to take action to reduce inequality. The paper ends by outlining four "old” measures to reduce inequality, based on the lessons from the post-war decades in Europe, and four "new” measures suggested by the analysis of today's economics of inequality. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Inequality nationallicence Wages nationallicence Redistribution nationallicence Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 211-223 0340-8744 42:2<211 2015 42 10663 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9288-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9288-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Atkinson Anthony Nuffield College, Oxford and INET at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 211-223 0340-8744 42:2<211 2015 42 10663