This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present … work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional …

portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For …

of age in a more polarized labor market, while the substantial rise in the income shares of the top 1 percent, their …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this …

results suggest there is moderate level of "stickiness" in income mobility across generations. Sons are found to be more …. There is virtually no evidence on intergenerational mobility in the context of low income countries in general and Sub …-Saharan Africa in particular. The paper thus provides valuable insights into issues of intergenerational mobility in a low income …

We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …-egalitarian distribution of income until 2000, and (ii) a less opportunity-egalitarian distribution of wealth after the financial crisis in …

and upper bound estimates ­ both for gross and net earnings based either on periodical or permanent income ­ for both …

strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …

control. We use data for Swedish men born between 1955 and 1967 for whom we measure the distribution of long-run income, as … well as several important background circumstances, such as parental education and income, family structure and own IQ … what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several …