Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …

old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income inequality. Causal effects are identified … considerable rise in old-age income inequality. In principle, this could have been offset by changes in the labor supply. We … rise in inequality. As measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality in overall old-age income rose by approximately 0 …

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …

-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …-term trend of rising inequality would already have been stopped after 2014 without the minimum wage. We demonstrate that the …