In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … inequality of wages, income, and consumption. (Copyright: Elsevier) … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …

distribution of employment, wages, and wealth observed in the data. Importantly, it reverses the prediction that employment falls … is that it implies labor supply responses to unanticipated wages changes (e.g., Frisch elasticities) that are a half to …

We document a clear increase in Swedish earnings inequality in the early 1990s, and that much of this increase was … generated by movements in and out of the labor market. Inequality in disposable income and earnings net of taxes and transfers … also increased, but much less than the increased inequality in pre-government earnings. These different developments are …

In this article we characterize the evolution of inequality in hourly wages, hours of work, labor earnings, household … Presupuestos Familiares and the European Household Community Panel. Our analysis shows that inequality in individual net labor … crucial role in smoothing out the inequality arising in the labor market, but instead the Spanish family does not seem to have …

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States, integrating data from the … Finances. In order to understand how different dimensions of inequality are related via choices, markets, and institutions, we … follow the mapping suggested by the household budget constraint from individual wages to individual earnings, to household …

distribution is extremely unequal, with a Gini coefficient of 0.79. Moreover, Swedish wealth inequality is to a very large extent …

labor income rather than by the intergenerational redistribution of income imposed by the social security system. In …

This paper presents an analysis of the trends in inequality across income, earnings and consumption in Britain since … 1978. It documents the episodic nature of inequality growth over this period largely dominated by the inequality 'boom' in … earnings inequality of the 1980s. It builds a consistent picture across these key measures of inequality to provide a coherent …