The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …

rather than any inherent result of an acquired taste for the arts, while cross-price elasticity evidence is relatively weak …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

recession is the long-period trend to be seen towards increasing social inequality. In the case of Italy the data reveal … symptoms of the social gap appearing even before the recent crisis, but growing inequality is by no means limited to Italy …. Indeed, the trends towards inequality have led sociologists to abandon the image of confluence at the centre, putting in its …

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … uncertainty, we predict that high levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels of individual welfare, and lower support for … income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective well-being for …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …