In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179-199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

-Swan and Boyce-Fofack-Ndikumana. The central argument presented is that the inequality problem is at the heart of rational … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in African countries, inequality in …

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …