This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …

inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …

mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …

disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth … and household wealth holdings. We find that overall disabled people have substantially lower household wealth and all … components of wealth (property, financial, pension, physical) than non-disabled people but even these average differences mask …