While ageing is accepted as a major problem for most industrialized societies, its labour market consequences are not …

The European ageing process will lead to a dramatic rise in dependency ratios over the next decades. At the same time … and ageing for European social security systems. With uncoordinated social security policies, national pensions funds …

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … contrast to the literature on individual earnings inequality, there has been little work modelling (as opposed to documenting … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, we illustrate this framework with an application to poverty …

This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross … than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the correlation between wages and hours worked. Over the same period, inequality in … hours worked remained roughly constant, and consumption inequality increased only modestly. Using data from the PSID, we …

This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined … by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …