We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

The paper aims to analyse how income inequality affects social networks strength in fourteen European Countries. We … introduce some new evidences by using the ECHP for testing the networks-inequality nexus and being able to construct directly … inequality indices from the microdata as well their decomposition. In particular, we focus on two main point: firstly, we analyse …

There has been a renewed interest in recent years in income inequality, economic mobility, and income volatility. I … and time, which can be decomposed into an inequality component measuring dispersion in mean incomes, a volatility … inequality, volatility, and mobility over the last several decades in the United States. I also examine changes in the …

inequality within Roemer's (1993) pragmatic theory where equally subgroup ranked individuals are assumed to be equally … responsible. Given entropy-based, deprivation-based and welfaristic inequality decomposition procedures, we show that the between …-group Gini index - obtained from the two-components decomposition (Dagum 1997) - is the only between-group inequality index …

in persistent earnings inequality in Europe. Using non-linear least squares we reveal a complex framework, where … institutions and their systemic interactions play a decisive role in shaping persistent inequality. "Piece-meal" reforms appear … more effective in reducing persistent inequality than comprehensive policy packages: a substitution effect in reducing …