inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …

In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim … to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the … circumstances under which inequality evolved, i.e. which changes in the German economy are most likely to provide an explanation for …

background of rising economic inequality in industrialized countries and the ongoing assessment of its root causes, analyses of … mutual stimulation between income flows and wealth stocks contributes to rising inequality. We analyze the extent of the …

from disadvantaged backgrounds. As it turns out, the majority of the German public perceives inequality in educational …

policy interacts with redistributive policy and how income inequality affects the degree and the polarization of the …