economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This …

top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within … a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … affluence, income is more important in the US. …

By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … with a low level of income inequality. Moreover, while income inequality shows a decline between 2000 and 2009, the World … groups. This paper utilizes a range of recently developed statistical techniques to assess the true value of income …

intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education system with standard and elite universities generates social … stratification, high social immobility and self-reproduction of the elite. Moreover, we show that the higher the relative funding for … elite universities, the higher the elite self-reproduction, and the lower social mobility. We also analyse the impacts of …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …

The Luxembourg Income Study (now known as LIS) provides public access for research purposes to harmonized unit …

is more unequally distributed than income, while housing wealth is much more evenly distributed than financial wealth … do not explain why wealth is much more unequally distributed than income. Instead, business and home ownership are …

same “centrist” attitude whatever the income increase is. In doing so, we approach the intermediate inequality concept … suggested by Del Río and Ruiz-Castillo (2000) and generalize it in order to extend the range of income distributions which are …

removed. Using this new wage distribution, we compute total household income and compare poverty rates in the absence of …