measures that aim to avoid credit overexpansion are two policies that can improve the links of private debt with labour income …

it is a key policy lever for income redistribution. This paper analyses how income distribution patterns changed in Spain … before and after the crisis using the personal income tax samples constructed by the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies for … the period 2002 to 2011. We find that the top and bottom of the income distribution gained the most from the boom period …

-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …

Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 … contribute to reduce inequality but their impact is limited given its small share in households’ total income. The analysis also …

Standard income inequality figures, based on official household survey statistics covering most of the population … of top incomes-adjusted income distribution series that bring together the bottom 99% and the top 1%. Unsurprisingly, the ….37 for the average OECD country; similarly, the gap between the mean income of the richest and the poorest 10% rises from 10 …

This paper delivers a broad assessment of income inequality in Denmark. As a necessary preamble to provide a basis for … then go beyond synthetic measures of inequality to deliver a granular assessment of income distribution and of the …

income inequality are found to differ depending on the sources of growth and on whether one considers income inequality … before or after government redistribution, that is, inequality in market incomes, i.e. income derived before taxes and … transfers, or inequality in disposable incomes, that is, income after taxes and transfers. Labour productivity growth is found …

This paper analyses income inequality in Ireland using a new panel dataset based on the administrative tax records of … be driven by both ends of the income distribution. An analysis of income mobility over time shows it has been low at both … ends of the income distribution, though it increased at the low end once the crisis began, reflecting the sharp …

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution …

This paper analyses income, wealth and earnings inequality in Australia, using the Household, Income and Labour … Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey as the primary source of data. Income inequality in Australia has risen in the last two … income growth in the middle of the income distribution compared with the top and the bottom. While Australia has experienced …