We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …

literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences … in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support …

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching …

We document a clear increase in Swedish earnings inequality in the early 1990s. Inequality in disposable income and … earnings net of taxes and transfers also increased, but much less than the increased inequality in pre-government earnings … observations, we see no clear trend in consumption inequality. We also estimate stochastic processes for household earnings. A …

information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals … aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social … demonstrating how substantial the impact on inequality of such measures could be. This paper assesses the first-round effects of …