constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …

France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to … France. Relative poverty and, notably, child poverty, have increased in Germany due to policy responses combined with the …

comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …

on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … Germany who lose ground on other groups …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …