income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early …