Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social … existence of such union-wide objectives and policies motivates measuring income dispersion among all Europeans in this paper …. Towards the end of the 2000s the income distribution in Europe was more unequal than in the average OECD country, albeit …

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena … prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Székely and … Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union …