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 …

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment …-based methods are prone to reflect the mostly positive shortor medium-run implications of inequality while the level … overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is … fragmented, based on cross-sectional evidence on skill premia rather than overall levels of inequality. This paper provides the … first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from …

first show that reductions in communications costs allow these markets to appear and increase wage inequality, as they favor …

This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using … interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax …. We find that the informational treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …