Kenworthy, Lane; Smeeding, Timothy - Amsterdams Instituut voor ArbeidsStudies (AIAS), … - 2013
In brief, we find that inequality is high and rising in the United States, but the great majority of the increase was captured by the top end of the distribution since the mid-1990s—the top 1 percent in any given year and the top 5 to 10 percent overall—over the past 40 years. Overall...