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 …

groups. Wage inequality has been declining for many years and has now again reached the level of the early 2000s. At the same … time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage points. Household income inequality, in contrast, has hardly changed for … material deprivation sank to a low level in a European comparison. Income inequality in Germany has declined slightly since the …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3 to 29.7 % of the population). In this … 10, and 14 % of those in the middle class experience poverty at least once over a 10-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91 and 50 % of extreme and moderate poverty, respectively). Differences between rural …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the …

as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …