A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …