on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents … fixed effects vector decomposition method, we estimate the gross total income difference between East and West Germans … taking unobserved heterogeneity into account. Our analysis demonstrates that the negative income gap has decreased from 33 …

This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced … income convergence for economic welfare and the importance of convergence for economic and monetary integration with, and …

measures that aim to avoid credit overexpansion are two policies that can improve the links of private debt with labour income …

reduced ethnic inequality. Income and wealth inequality have gradually declined since the mid-1970s. With the “people economy …” at the centre of Malaysia’s ambition to become a high-income country by 2020, the focus is shifting to the challenges of …