-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. The findings suggest that inequality between the 90 …

-sectional inequality rather than long-term changes in the degree of intergenerational persistence. …

/productivity inequality. We investigate this link empirically in the context of road cycling. We show that the rise in performance inequality … in the peloton since the 1970s is merely due to a rise in within team performance inequality and consistent with a change …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the … top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage inequality started to rise also at the bottom of the distribution. Hence … substantial part of the increase in inequality, in particular at the top of the distribution. We further argue that selection into …