This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality or 23 OECD … sorting and household structure changes contributed, albeit moderately, to increasing household earnings inequality, while … increases in men's earnings disparities, were identified as the main driver of household earnings inequality, contributing …

the impact on marital sorting of both inequality between educational strata and increasing gender parity in the labor and … educational markets. I find that in countries with greater returns to education, the odds of any sort of union that crosses … education and marital sorting within countries. I find that across countries, gender parity in educational attainment is related …

What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … woman's marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … income. Using data of 24 European countries we first show that capital income is strongly related to parental education and … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of …

Education inequality has always been a concern for policy makers due to its long-term and intergenerational impacts …. This paper examines the determinants and the sources of education inequality among the youth in the MENA region using … education inequality measured by years of schooling and to identify the determinants of Gini index of education across countries …

The US has exceptionally high inequality of disposable household income (i.e., income after accounting for taxes and … transfers). Among working-age households (those with no persons over age 60), that high level of inequality is caused by a high … level of market income inequality (i.e., income before taxes and transfers), paired with a moderate level of redistribution …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities … coefficients able to summarize the shape of inequalities: a main coefficient, alpha, measures inequality at the median, and two …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …