inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

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

, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

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 …

Data on the life-cycle profiles of inequality in wages, earnings, hours worked and consumption contains precious … on the estimated age profiles for inequality and, thus, on the answers to those questions. It also shows that time … effects are required to account for the observed trends in inequality in thirty years of US data, whereas there is no evidence …

In this article we characterize the evolution of inequality in hourly wages, hours of work, labor earnings, household … Presupuestos Familiares and the European Household Community Panel. Our analysis shows that inequality in individual net labor … in the unemployment rate have been key ingredients to understand this falling trend. However, the inequality reduction …

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

This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

and amplifies the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this effect, we analyze the earnings …