In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …

This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing … inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than … twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago. However, neither hours worked nor education, industry, marital status, or …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

upside inequality aversion than what is exhibited by the Gini coefficient. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the sequences … of dominance criteria characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures and thus provide a …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

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