inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …

wage differentials between 1978 to 2018. After adjusting for the measurement errors and excluding imputations, we find that … gender wage gaps among all workers narrowed by 4 log points more than is commonly reported, and that residual wage inequality … decreased by 6 log points more. The biases also exist in measures of wage gaps and residual inequality among full-time year …

respected and where in each approach the boundaries of individual responsibility are drawn. We compare the measurement of … inequality in well-being with the use of multidimensional inequality measures. We illustrate the general theoretical issues in …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …