: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium …. Instead, high income inequality played a large role. This is because manufacturing job loss typically implies a move to the … increases with the overall level of income inequality in the country, conditional on moving down in the wage distribution. Based …

The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and recipient units with the … income categories and units found in data produced by tax authorities. Our analyses, based on a standardized definition of … fiscal income, allow us to locate, for top-income groups, the sources of discrepancy. We find, using the cases of the United …

This paper investigated the link between inflation and the top decile income share after the global financial crisis …. The analysis was done on a sample of 42 countries. We found that higher inflation has reduced the income going to the top … decile. The main explanation is that inflation has eroded their labour income, differently from the low-income individuals …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … outcome of this process entails relevant information about the evolution of the income distribution. We exploit the LIS micro … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities …

) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re … income concepts, or on net market income from which it is passed onto other incomes through fiscal rules. These corrections … yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc …

This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by …