Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Europe. Are they on the rise?

Ana Suárez Álvarez () and Ana Jesus Lopez Menendez
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Ana Jesus Lopez Menendez: University of Oviedo, Spain
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No 436, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the behaviour of income inequality and Inequality of Opportunity over time for 26 European countries. The analysis is carried out using microdata collected by the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), which incorporate a wide variety of personal harmonised variables, allowing comparability between countries. The availability of this database for years 2004 and 2010 is particularly relevant to assess changes over time in the main inequality indices and the contribution of circumstances to inequality of opportunity. Furthermore, a bootstrap estimation is performed with the aim of testing if the differences between both years are statistically significant.

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2017-04
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