Journals

We find that most households save more for medical expenses than for bequests but that richer households and couples save more for bequests. 

We assess the effect of the creation of specialised courts on the reporting of IPV (intimate partner violence), and the incidence of IPV in Spain.

Income inequality in Austria is moderate and has been stable in recent years. Yet, employment statistics reveal inequality trends in the labour market

Belgium exhibits a rather constant level of income inequality over the last decades, contrary to Germany, the United States and some Nordic countries.

We document the evolution of working-age individual pre-tax and disposable income inequality in France since the late 1960s using household surveys.

This study analyses the development of inequality in Germany from 1983 to 2020, focusing on labour market trends and income inequality.

We study how changes in labour market outcomes and household composition translate into changes in household incomes in the over the period 1997-2022

We discuss the evolution of inequality in Greece from 2004 to 2021, including the Greek debt crisis between 2008 and 2013. 

This paper studies the labour supply and income inequality of individuals aged 25–55 in Italy between 1989 and 2020.

This paper offers a descriptive overview of the evolution of individual earnings and household income inequality in Spain over the last two decades.

We study whether educational expansion is effective for reducing inequality and why some educational systems are associated more with lower inequality

Fiscal Studies: Volume 45, Issue 3

This special issue is the second in a two-part series on the evolution of labour market and disposable income inequalities over recent decades.

This paper investigates the evolution of income and wage inequality in Portugal from the 1974 democratic revolution up to 2020.

The choices of policy makers affect the incentive to work at older ages and these incentives have important effects on retirement behavior. 

Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.

In this paper, we describe the trends in inequality in Canada and the combination of market and policy forces that drove them.