value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …

-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a …

on inequality, including the debate on Thomas Piketty's book. We argue that four 'engines of inequality' can be …After much empirical documentation of patterns of inequality, we address in this paper the need for a convincing … interpretation of the causes of inequality in advanced countries. We set the current debate in the context of the evolution of ideas …

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 …

on inequality, including the debate on Thomas Piketty's book. We argue that four 'engines of inequality' can be …After much empirical documentation of patterns of inequality, we address in this paper the need for a convincing … interpretation of the causes of inequality in advanced countries. We set the current debate in the context of the evolution of ideas …

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 …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively … the "new inequality" at the very top. Household earnings inequality has risen, driven by male earnings - although a 'catch …-up' of female earnings did hold down individual earnings inequality and reduce within-household inequality. Nevertheless, net …

inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … wealth causes a larger decline in life-cycle consumption than a standard deviation decrease in initial human capital …