modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

framework, using the Theil indicator, all available information on inequality trends between agricultural and nonagricultural … sectors and on inequality trends within each sector in European countries. Finally Section 3 throws light on the political and …

To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a connection, what if anything … predicting changes in inequality and how it has needed to be extended and expanded when, contrary to some received wisdom …, greater global integration is associated with increasing inequality in developed and developing countries. From there, the …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …

information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …-household earnings analyses reveal that despite rising female labor market participation, intra-household inequality has remained …

correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …, on the other hand, display only a modest increase in inequality over the same period. These trends occured against the …