We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990’s has … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …

mobility as much as the natives do. This could be interpreted as a lack of access to the full range of occupations, possibly …

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …

expect considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle if the life-cycle motives and incentives to accumulate are strong and … data are unique, they follow a large sample of households over almost 40 years. There is substantial mobility when we … follow individual households over long enough time spans. We find that wealth mobility increased until the end of the 1980s …