for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes. It illustrates that changes in top income shares …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data … evolution of income inequality is best studied, not in terms of an over-arching theory, but by studying episodes of rising and …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to cash income are not necessarily appropriate when including non …

Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is … analysing inequality in the income distribution as a whole. This paper proposes a non-parametric approach for estimating … inequality in the overall distribution of income on the basis of tabular data from different sources, some in a highly aggregated …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. -- Income distribution ; poverty …

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes.It illustrates that changes in top income shares can …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …

We study the inequality of disposable income in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the late 1980s and early … 1990s when unemployment rose dramatically in all four countries. A standard measure of inequality - the Gini coefficient … - was surprisingly stable in all countries during this period. By decomposing the Gini into income components, we test …