areas where incomes are relatively low. While it is most common to confine measures of inequality to national borders, the … most important. Inequality in Europe has risen quite substantially since the mid 1980s. While the EU enlargement process … has contributed to this, it is not the only explanation since inequality has also increased within a “core” of 8 European …

Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … significant progress in reducing inequality. This study analyses the drivers of inequality in Costa Rica by decomposing the Gini … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 …

inequality for the group of high-income countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient, stands at 37 in 2013 and has increased by … incomes and the bottom 10% falling behind. Rising inequality within the United States drives almost half of the inequality … increase among high-income countries, a combination of a sizeable rise in inequality and a population share around a third in …

Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … discussion of the results of empirical analysis, has preferred to focus on income inequality. This paper looks into the analysis … of wealth inequality, which can be performed by carefully adapting the techniques used in the case of income …

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena … countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the … inequality-affecting (shape-in uenced) convergence of distributions. …

also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …

investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … increase of inequality that is concentrated mostly in the lower part of regional income distributions. We determine a … significant channeling of the trade pressure to income inequality through the shrinking manufacturing sector, the increasing …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data …