Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2007, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries (Ross … growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income … inequality will fall in the short run immediately after a boom, and will then increase steadily over time as the economy grows …

intersectoral income inequality, increasing the national inequality; this, in turn, prompts an intersectoral migration, which works … as an equilibriating mechanism, decreasing the inequality in due course. The theoretical predictions yield a recursive …