This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …

income inequality and interdependent social norms. The model shows in an easily accessible manner how personal and functional … income inequality can potentially have contrary effects on aggregate demand and growth. It can illustrate some of the major … connected to inequality and country specific consumption and saving behaviour. Furthermore, aggregate consumption functions are …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of … by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower … persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; fairness ; redistribution ; wage inequality …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of … by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of … by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of … by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied …

Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …