Regional inequality is low in Sweden compared to most other OECD countries, but has been rising over the past decades, fuelling discontent in parts of the country, whose inhabitants feel left behind. The younger population is increasingly concentrated in the largest cities, which also enjoy the...

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Székely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and...

Der Antrag der Volksinitiative "Für einen Mindestlohn von zehn Euro pro Stunde" in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Drucksache 6/1020 des Landtags Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) zielt auf einen bundesweit einheitlichen flächendeckenden Mindestlohn in Höhe von zehn Euro je Stunde, zu dessen Einführung das...