over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States, integrating data from the … Finances. In order to understand how different dimensions of inequality are related via choices, markets, and institutions, we … wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

We examine how technological change affects wage inequality and unemployment in a calibrated model of matching …, and (ii) the total amount of wage inequality generated by frictions is very small. We explain these findings in light of …

inequality when workers are ex-ante equal, but their adaptability to new technologies is subject to stochastic factors that are … the demand for adaptable workers. In the model the rise in within-group inequality is mainly transitory, and is mirrored …

, greater wage inequality presents opportunities to increase aggregate productivity by concentrating market work among more …

.e., inequality among observationally similar workers) exceeds the model's prediction by a factor of 20. We discuss three extensions …

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …