We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena … countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the … inequality-affecting (shape-in uenced) convergence of distributions. …

This work studies trends in income distributions and inequality in the European Union using data from the European … slight increase in inequality which is however not significant at conventional levels. …

We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational …

Social Survey. The main result is that changes in income inequality positively affect changes in preferences for … empirical support. This study shows that, at least in Europe, growing income inequality leads to more individual support for … panels, the use of lags and different measures of income inequality. …

areas where incomes are relatively low. While it is most common to confine measures of inequality to national borders, the … most important. Inequality in Europe has risen quite substantially since the mid 1980s. While the EU enlargement process … has contributed to this, it is not the only explanation since inequality has also increased within a “core” of 8 European …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A … bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of the results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale …