This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution … the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the extreme top (top 0.1 percent) income transmission is remarkable with … fathers' income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …

This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income … employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …

This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to measure the current and future … between income obtained from households' own saving and labor earnings, on the one hand, and the part financed with unfunded … transfers, on the other. The burden of unfunded transfers is defined as the tax on factor income that is needed to pay for such …

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over … seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income … display a marked "Anglo-Saxon" pattern, with sharply increased top income shares. Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, however …

policies are related to households' relative incomes, taking into account cross-national and temporal differences in income … distributions. At the same time, we consider how two of the central factors that may be driving income inequality at the individual … or household level - parental educational level and family structure - may be related to a household's relative income …

United States using recent LIS and Multinational Time Use data. All three countries have above-average aggregate income … inequality, but it is least in Australia and greatest in the United States. The greater aggregate income equality in Australia …. The UK and US aggregate income inequality allows highly-educated, particularly US women to reduce their housework time …

quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of …. (2008) to a sample of 21 low and middle income countries and 11 industrialized countries. In particular the inclusion of the … HDI of the richest quintile in many middle income countries. We also find, however, a strong overall negative correlation …

In a search for determinants of societal levels of income inequality, scholars have suggested that homogamy within … unlikely to have contributed to changes in income inequality. This finding is based on counterfactual simulations performed for … 21 European countries and the United States using data from the Luxembourg Income Studies. In a second stage of the …