East Germany for men aged 20-60 rose by 118%, while various inequality measures indicate an increase in wage inequality of … 25 to 61%. This paper studies the causes of this growth in wages and the changes in wage inequality, the first two … growth and inequality change in East Germany. Most of the increases occur at the beginning of the transition. We compare our …

inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …