… the explanations of income inequality. Even if we confine attention to OECD countries, we
find … covering the period 1945–2001 for nine OECD countries. It is widely believed that rising …

… virtually all OECD countries, with decreases typically being more pronounced in continental
European countries (and Japan) than in the Anglo-Saxon countries. In the Euro area the …

… distribution of income and poverty in thirteen OECD countries. It also examines changes in
the overall distribution of income, how income … overall distribution of disposable income and …

… tackled by the OECD. In this review we expose the OECD Income Distribution Database to
… contributes to the study of income inequality in the OECD countries and that deserves full …

… factors of income distribution in OECD countries: … of the OECD report focuses on incomes.
The first section of this chapter describes the OECD history of research into income distribution …

… changes in earnings dispersion in OECD countries since 1980 (in … Rising income inequality
may therefore be due to many … behaviour of income inequality in the two countries, one has …

… It sketches a brief portrait of increasing income inequality in OECD countries and the
potential driving forces behind it. It reviews changes in these driving forces and examines their …

… used for systems of national income accounts.Hence, … Income Study (LIS) which underlies
much of this paper offers the reader many choices of perspective in terms of country, income …

… As public transfers are the main component of income for retired persons in most OECD
countries, an increasing transfer share in the incomes of the entire population, and effects on …

… Finance and income inequality in OECD countries Using data from OECD countries over
the past three decades, this paper shows that financial expansion has fuelled greater income …