them? Public economists propose solutions based on economic theory, but their political feasibility depends on voters …' support, and ordinary households often neglect economic theory and have different views about efficiency and fairness. We …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the … differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …