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 … relevant in the context of the changes that took place in the EU labour market policy framework after 1995 under the incidence …

-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 …

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores … the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality … analysis based on the standard approach suggests that benefits are the most important factor reducing inequality in the …

literature. We find that the growth in earnings inequality reflects an increase in long-term inequality and a decrease in … implications of these labour market structural changes for the structure of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. Using an … extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg's growth in …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

well as several important background circumstances, such as parental education and income, family structure and own IQ … what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …