Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity … main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a result, a significant revision of the previous consensus about the … key drivers. The most researched channels include skill-biased technological change, international trade, immigration …

income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy … can also have an important influence on inequality outcomes, in particular through education and labour market policies … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …

technology, trade and consumption. Using structural decomposition analysis, we study the relative importance of these drivers for …

a result of international trade and the internationalisation of production by multinational companies, with a particular … investing firms. Existing studies suggest that the overall impact of trade and the internationalisation of production on … United States. In contrast, there is a negative association in Japan, especially from outward investment in China …

preponderance of fixed-term contracts, involving few restrictions. Minimum wages are set locally and have not kept up with average … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …

country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also …