what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good …

There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in crosssectional wage inequality during the … 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a "permanent nature" which in turn is used as an argument calling for … inequality during the 2000s. Applying covariance structure models, we calculate the fraction of permanent and transitory wage and …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …

-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …