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 …

This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during … the 1980's. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries and … that the ranking of countries with respect to inequality remains unchanged when the accounting period of income is extended …

We analyse how inequality of disposable income evolved in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the late 1980s and … early 1990s when unemployment rose dramatically in all four countries. We find that a standard measure of inequality - the …

, 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 …