We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

are comparable or even above the OECD average in several dimensions, such as health, environment or life … by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … is increasing rapidly, and to close the gender gap in the labour market. The health and pension systems play a …

-25 percent. We further consider overall labor market outcomes by examining theoretically the socially optimal wealth distribution …. Interdependence in utility can mitigate the need to transfer wealth to low-wage individuals and may require them to be poorer by all …

–25 percent. We further consider overall labor market outcomes by examining theoretically the socially optimal wealth distribution …. Interdependence in utility can mitigate the need to transfer wealth to low-wage individuals and may require them to be poorer by all … ; income tax ; PSID …

-tested minimum income. Sustaining universal access to good health care is also essential. Well-designed activation policies are …Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

-25 percent. We further consider overall labor market outcomes by examining theoretically the socially optimal wealth distribution …. Interdependence in utility can mitigate the need to transfer wealth to low-wage individuals and may require them to be poorer by all …

care more about procedural fairness than inequality of economic outcomes, national income inequality should be less …/welfare state size, we find no relationship between country-level economic inequality, as measured by the disposable income Gini …