disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …

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

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 …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of … changes, transitory and permanent shocks and estimate the contribution of each to total inequality. Our model fits the joint … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …