policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …

innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU … YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … R&D intensive (R&D intensity > 15%). In our estimations, we also take the underlying distribution of the growth …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

skills, while emotional skills seem to be unaffected by parental investment throughout childhood. Thus, initial inequality …