of its wide acceptance, current estimation approaches in the literature suffer from severe data restrictions that lead to … biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These shortcomings are particularly pronounced for emerging economies in which … bounds of inequality of opportunity for a set of emerging economies. Thereby, we address recent critiques that worry about …

economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward … biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These shortcomings may be particularly pronounced for emerging economies in … extent of upward and downward bias in inequality of opportunity estimates for a set of twelve emerging economies. Our …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market ….Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how circumstances beyond the sphere of individual control explain inequality …

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the … differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …