This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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 …

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

Traditional indices of bi-dimensional inequality and polarization were developed for cardinal variables and cannot be … the measurement of inequality and bi-polarization using only ordinal information. An empirical illustration is given for …

-productivity workers, leading to an increase in welfare inequality. We show that the very popular idea that a more funded system would … ineluctably lead to more inequalities in well-being can be justified only by focusing on the inequality of positions in case of …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment : the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …