research, stand out Anthony Atkinson, Simon Kuznets, Michael Kalecki, and Thomas Piketty …Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in … portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For …

Income inequality in the context of large structural change has received a lot of attention in the literature, but most … studies relied on household post-transfer inequality measures. This study utilizes a novel and fairly comprehensive collection … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath …