our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes to the level of income inequality from the period just before … inequality fell in the early part of the crisis, but rose steadily and then rapidly. Much of this change was due to rising … inequality of market incomes, (even when discounting unemployment). This was due to the differential effect of the downturn on …

of short-term inequality and its link with cross-sectional inequality; second, the evolution of long-term mobility … relative to short-term mobility and the implications for long-term inequality; third, we try to understand the cross … association between the evolution of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. More flexible labour markets, with low levels of …

owners, while poverty and inequality increase. …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in … both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in …

. 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 …

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 …

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … a welfare perspective, particularly given the large variety in national cross-sectional wage inequality. This is highly … the source of earnings variation? Did the increase in cross-sectional wage inequality observed in some countries result …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

. 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 …