affected geographic/ religious/ ethnic groups at various income deciles. Growth incidence curves before-after conflict … illustrate the income changes experienced by the respective socioeconomic groups. Accounting for distortions due to individual … are clearest in the upper half of the income spectrum, leading to profound changes in social order. …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … outcome of this process entails relevant information about the evolution of the income distribution. We exploit the LIS micro … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …

This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There … the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened over this period. Using microdata from Luxembourg Income Study …

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest …. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle …- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable across countries and over time. Traditional indicators less sensitive to …

This paper investigates whether the individual misperception of income distributions helps explain why, opposite to … information treatment on the income distribution to a randomly chosen subsample. Most respondents misperceive their own position … in the income distribution. These biases di_er by country and the true income position. Misperceptions of the median …

research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … income distribution has widened and whether trade is responsible indeed. However, political trends may be more grounded in …) and income statistics from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), this paper shows in an international cross-section analysis …

This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by …

, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a … reduction of the policies in support of low income individuals. …

Based on the standard axiom of individual utility maximization, rational choice has postulated that higher income … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study …