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 …

Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives …. The introduction of the Social-democratic Danish financing system decreases inequality of incomes, but does not …

analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

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

which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in … both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in …