Inequality within advanced countries has returned to levels typical of a century ago. At the global level it remains … extremely high despite the rapid growth of major developing countries such as China, India and Brazil. This makes inequality a … major economic issue, social problem and political challenge in today’s capitalism. However, economic inequality is the …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …

nine percent. We find similar percentages for earnings, income, and wealth. Decomposing intergenerational elasticities … reveals that shared environments explain 50% for earnings, 60% for income, 70% for wealth, and 80% for schooling. Family …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates …

Establishing an equitable and efficient tax system is essential for reducing poverty, combating inequality, and …

In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …