Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which … wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify the determinants of the outcomes that we observe in the data and to … medical-expense risk are crucial determinants of savings and wealth inequality and that we need to look at more data to …

typically invisible in income data, distorting our understanding of the extent of income inequality. A recent strand of research … role of privately held firms in income inequality in Finland, including the role of retained earnings, but also taking a …Business owners of privately held firms have multiple opportunities to decide how much taxable income to take out from …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings, income and consumption inequality and contribute to their fluctuation. The … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …