lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …

inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …

. Specifically, our approach combines different economic models estimated on firm- and household-level data: a VAR-model for output … the effect on the distribution of disposable household incomes turns progressive: the bottom two deciles actually gain …