income component. This result gives a clarification of the difference between contribution to inequality and (marginal …) effect on inequality. …

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …

. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …

We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in … Norwegian data from municipal accounts and administrative registers for the period 1982- 2013. We find that economic inequality … contribution from public cash transfers. When examining the time trends in inequality, we find that local governments attenuated …

, structure and trend in family labor income inequality. An interesting question is to what extent the rise in women's labor force … labor income, or vice versa. Based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient and a related index for the extent of … decomposition of the Gini coefficient indicates that there is no tendency of "flocking together". For this group women's labor …

The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under … paper, we pursue two alternative approaches to measure inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability of income … indicates that both levels and trends in overall inequality as well as the inequality contributions of various income factors …