-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our … sample period, the fraction of overall inequality attributed to children rose from 14% to 64%. This trend not only resulted …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

earned and non-earned income contribute to explain between household income inequality. We show that this impact depends not … adult, participation, labor earnings, hourly earnings, working hours, and in non-earned income affect inequality levels. We … find an empirically discrete relationship between gender gaps and income inequality. Although this relationship tends to …

standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the …

Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high …

inequality. We develop an overlapping generations model in which individuals differ by their life expectancy and in the cost of …

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …