lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

be regarded as "fair" we compare the equivalent incomes of eight different household types. Using the concepts of system … in the high income brackets tend to be privileged. The equity in the treatment of a household type is not only affected … by the amount but also by the distribution of income between the household members. Based on these results we can state a …

We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income … find that net household income has remained fairly stable. -- Earnings Inequality ; Permanent Income Inequality …