This paper adopts a comparative framework and examines rates of poverty and income inequality for Luxembourg between the mid-1980s and 2000. A dataset for the Grande Reacute;gion, which combines data from four countries, is also constructed in order to perform cross- and inter-regional analyses....

This paper proposes homogeneous annual series on the income distribution of Frenchmetropolitan départements for the period 1960-69 and 1986-2018. We rely on unpublishedand newly digitised archives of the French Ministry of Finance. They consist of fiscaltabulations that are a summary of...

This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991-2016. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed countries and has been decreasing until the financial crisis...