The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state-level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary … least squares (OLS) and then with generalized method of moments (GMM). The principal explanatory variables for inequality …

inequality. Incomes in lower deciles were strongly supported by growth in labour participation, while those in the upper deciles … were supported by growth in returns on capital investment. This paper contends that the income inequality debate may need …

individual working-biographies. This discussion paper portrays the instrument of this projection, a microsimulation model for the … year 1996 in Germany (AVID-PRO). For the purpose of this microsimulation model we first raised longitudinal section and … for the continuation of suitable models. In the centre of the microsimulation based projection we have three sub …

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we … find that net household income has remained fairly stable. -- Earnings Inequality ; Permanent Income Inequality …

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …