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 …

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 …

This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income … inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical … Income Inequality Database. A number of issues crucial to the studies of global income inequality are addressed. These are …

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and … national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels … income inequality and income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts are …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …

We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for … around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies … or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters' IGEs are higher than sons' indicating lower income mobility for women. …

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …