distribution. I use the estimates to decompose the overall effect of transfers on wealth inequality in the effect of the aggregated … very much in line with the literature, indicating that transfers tend to equalize wealth inequality, despite minor …

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over various socioeconomic groups such as gender, age, education and sector of … economic activity. We first present an overview of the evolution of wages and wage inequality over the period 2005-2011. Next …

How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? We turn to the mother of all technological shocks … industrialization on the top percentile's wealth share and the inequality among top fortunes. We show that this relationship between …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

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 …