2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The transitory ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium … question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …