over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to …, inequality rose in the United States and fell markedly in Brazil. …

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … reweighting the conditional hours distribution. Depending on the inequality measure considered, our results suggest that between … 10 and 30 percent of the increase in male earnings inequality and 37 to 47 percent of the increase in female earnings …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …