it is a key policy lever for income redistribution. This paper analyses how income distribution patterns changed in Spain … before and after the crisis using the personal income tax samples constructed by the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies for … the period 2002 to 2011. We find that the top and bottom of the income distribution gained the most from the boom period …

contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate. To fill this gap … certain characteristics by their population shares in 1987 to construct counterfactual income distributions for 2013 and …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … both income and wealth following the sharp decline in house prices that occurred since 2008, with house price fluctuations …

family structures and migration. Living standards increased for all groups, but social benefits rose less than earned income … income shifting, increased inequality. Low intergenerational income mobility in the very top of the income distribution is a …

This paper analyses income inequality in Ireland using a new panel dataset based on the administrative tax records of … be driven by both ends of the income distribution. An analysis of income mobility over time shows it has been low at both … ends of the income distribution, though it increased at the low end once the crisis began, reflecting the sharp …

Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … low intergenerational social mobility and weak real income growth for many households. A more inclusive pattern of growth … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context …

Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social … existence of such union-wide objectives and policies motivates measuring income dispersion among all Europeans in this paper …. Towards the end of the 2000s the income distribution in Europe was more unequal than in the average OECD country, albeit …

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on … incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the … differences in income distributions across countries and over time. For example, it assesses the extent to which stability in …