from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap computing time … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …