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 …

rates. However, the economy is now slowing at a time when inequality remains very high, making future social progress … should be less disparate, as they explain around 70% of income inequality. This should be done by updating labour legislation …

This paper analyses income inequality in Ireland using a new panel dataset based on the administrative tax records of … the Revenue Commissioners for Ireland. High inequality at market incomes in Ireland by international standards appears to …

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

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 … a rising inequality in wages – mostly through rapid earnings increases among top earners - this has been offset by …

During the last decade, research on income inequality has paid special attention to top income earners. At the same …

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 …

outcomes. Second, we study which policies can reduce this type of inequality without, hopefully, damaging macroeconomic …

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. …