Inequality, growth and mobility: The intertemporal distribution of income in European countries 2003–2007

Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Europe

“…Two recent contributions are Checchi et al . () and Van Kerm and Pi Alperin () who provide an overview of wage inequality using EU‐SILC data for 26 European countries. Both studies suggest that the most unequal earnings can be observed for Portugal and Eastern European countries, while more compressed earnings distributions can be found for the Scandinavian countries.…”

“…Thus, comparative studies predominantly cover small sets of countries (e.g., Burkhauser and Poupore, ; Aaberge et al ., ; Hofer and Weber, ; Gregg and Vittori, ). One of the few studies providing evidence for a large number of countries is Van Kerm and Pi Alperin (), employing recent EU‐SILC data. The findings of these cross‐country analyses reveal that despite the large differences in earnings inequality, the patterns of earnings mobility are rather similar.…”

“…Countries with relatively unequal earnings exhibit somewhat lower mobility rates, while the opposite is the case for countries with a more compressed earnings distribution. In contrast to Van Kerm and Pi Alperin (), we follow the methodology of Buchinsky and Hunt () for a large set of European countries, which allows a clear link between the measurement of inequality and mobility; we explicitly analyze earnings transitions, both descriptively and econometrically; and we extend the time period under consideration to 2011.…”

“…The literature providing comparative evidence on wage inequality for a large set of countries is relatively small (some of the few studies on this issue are Koeniger et al (2007), Gottschalk and Smeeding (2000), and Checchi and Garcia-Peñalosa (2008), for OECD countries; and Sologon and O'Donoghue (2012) and Cholezas and Tsakloglou (2007) for European countries). Two recent contributions are Checchi et al (2010) and Van Kerm and Pi Alperin (2013) who provide an overview of wage inequality using EU-SILC data for 26 European countries. Both studies suggest that the most unequal earnings can be observed for Portugal and Eastern European countries, while more compressed earnings distributions can be found for the Scandinavian countries.…”

The Relationship Between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty

“…Online summaries are available from Eurostat (Eurostat 2011). Information about persistent poverty rates are also provided, though using an earlier EU-SILC data release by, inter alia, Social Situation Observatory (2010a, b) and Van Kerm and Pi Alperin (2010). Compared to these sources, we provide greater detail about patterns of persistent poverty across EU countries, use a later year's data (which 8 The cross-sectional files contain data for all EU member states plus Norway and Iceland.…”