Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income …, assortative mating a¤ects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …

a dynamic model in which individuals are willing to accept an unequal distribution of income in the current period if … from expropriating the rich. Unlike previous contributions, we do not assume exogenous changes of the income distribution …