Similar Search Results

Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880

Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk - 2009

This paper provides an introduction to the special issue of the Review of Economic Dynamics on "Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists''. The issue documents, for nine countries, the level and the evolution, over time and over the life cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463095

Unequal We Stand : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006

Heathcote, Jonathan - 2009

wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463166

The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan - 2008

In recent decades, the US wage structure has been transformed by a rising college premium, a narrowing gender gap, and … increasing persistent and transitory residual wage dispersion. This paper explores the implications of these changes for cross … changing wage structure as the only primitive force, the model can account for the key trends in cross-sectional US data. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464594

More Unequal We Stand? : Inequality Dynamics in the United States 1967-2021

Heathcote, Jonathan; Perri, Fabrizio; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

find that since the early 2000s, the college wage premium has stopped growing, and the race wage gap has stalled. However …, the gender wage gap has kept shrinking. Both individual- and household-level income inequality have continued to rise at …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322873