or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

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

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare … entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial e¤ort and hence a country’s contribution to the world technology … “cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence … the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality boosts up the rise of …

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 …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

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 …

approaches seem to be exaggerated, proposing artificial breaks in the historical process. Inequality was at a high level by the … towards skill-intensive products, inequality gave rise to serious shortcomings in terms of human capital accumulation, and the …