moments of the data over the life cycle. The key challenge for the model is to generate declining inequality in annual hours …-sectional inequality in labor supply and consumption, and may have quantitative relevance for analyses that exploit the intratemporal first …

This paper contributes with empirical findings to the research on structural inequality and geographic concentration of … inequality of EPO patenting and inventor location has decreased significantly within the last two decades for most technology … fields. In this respect, our quantitative approach clearly depicts dispersion tendencies and decreasing inequality, although …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

inequality in several parts: we will distinguish 11 different benefits and several income taxes and social contributions in our … empirical investigation across countries. First, we use LIS data to analyze income inequality and the redistributive effect of … we decompose income inequality through several taxes and transfers. We analyze the redistributive effect of several …

We explore the relationship between financial reforms and income inequality using a panel of 29 countries over 1975 …