compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing … the key role. Furthermore, the equalizing impacts of the tax benefit system on inequality of opportunity differ … substantially from the ones observed when referring to the traditional notion of inequality of outcomes. …

. 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 …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The transitory ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … a welfare perspective, particularly given the large variety in national cross-sectional wage inequality. This is highly … the source of earnings variation? Did the increase in cross-sectional wage inequality observed in some countries result …