increases in any source of household income are associated with decreases in intra-household inequality, as measured by the …

The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over … the period 1991-2016 to examine the evolution of inequality in hours worked and of the correlation between individual …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

social interactions it can be socially desirable to keep substantial wealth inequality …

distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings …

income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country … margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution … supply elasticities across countries. However, this changes the cross-country ranking in inequality aversion compared to …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …