Did Belgium withstand the Storm of Rising Inequalities? Income Inequality in Belgium, 1985-2020

Belgium exhibits a rather constant level of income inequality during the last decades, contrary to Germany, the United States, and some Nordic countries, which all faced substantial increases in inequality. We use the available surveys from 1985 to 2020 to describe the evolution of income inequality by means of the Gini index. Earnings inequality has slightly decreased in the last two decades, at least if one takes into account the impact of the substantial increase in employment of especially older and female persons. Though the education gap in earnings is widening, the rapid increase in (mo... Mehr ...