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

inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …

in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …