This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … increase in lifetime earnings inequality. -- lifetime earnings ; earnings distribution ; inequality ; mobility ; Germany …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …, increasing inequality. Significant gains in educational attainment, the demographic transition, and rising female labor force …

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …