Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and …

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 …