-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 …

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 …