Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income … aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis drawing from unique data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for … unemployment in a recession drawing upon a heterogeneous set of both income and middle-class definitions as well as an extensive …

skill acquisition extremes in one country, and simultaneous expansion of middle-income industries in another. Individual … ; skill acquisition ; education ; income distribution …

The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in … data from two British cohorts who entered the labour market at two points in time with very different degrees of employment … polarization, we examine how parental income affects both entry occupations and occupational upgrading over careers. We find that …

attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …