We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level …, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate … whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find only weak evidence that Germans are …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

inequality, and find that the regions that had the highest increase in international migration are also the regions where the … diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level …, however, fails to support this hypothesis, indicating that most changes in inequality have occurred within rather than between …

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … a welfare perspective, particularly given the large variety in national cross-sectional wage inequality. This is highly … the source of earnings variation? Did the increase in cross-sectional wage inequality observed in some countries result …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …