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 …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

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 … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social … properties of the distribution of earnings changes. We find strong evidence of deviations from normality of this distribution in … terms of negative skewness and high kurtosis, with these deviations varying with income and along the worker's life cycle. A …

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution. …In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …