This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable income inequality in over 20 …-national comparison of survey-based household income data. With these caveats in mind, we present data on both the level of inequality … during the early to mid-1990s, and in inequality trends since 1970. While most comparisons are made in terms of relative …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … regional concentration of future transfers from East to West Germany. -- inequality decomposition ; Gini ; stratification …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …

German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, inequality of income) by comparing …, significant differences between these two subsamples with respect to (income) inequality are found in the first year, which start …

always enhances the equalizing property. Delaying indexation might not be better off in terms of inequality. A politically in … inequality indexing proposed by Burman, Shiller, Leiserson, Rohaly and Kennedy (2007) by suggesting institutionalizing a joint …