in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies …

This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the sources of cross …

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a … top decile's income share is associated with a statistically significant 0.12 point rise in GDP growth during the … for the cumulative positive effect of faster growth on the mean income of the bottom nine deciles to offset the negative …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income …

in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …

regression based decomposition, we find that changes in wage inequality have been driven mainly by variations in educational wage …

show that Kazakhs are better endowed with income generating characteristics but receive lower returns to these …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist … in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that …