2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980's and early 1990's and … the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The transitory ….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 …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

as well, and according to many economists, variations in skill inequality can explain variations in wage inequality …

This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to … the idea that a more regulated institutional framework reduces individual mobility within the wage distribution …

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

We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …