Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though …

inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …-tax financing are in the same ballpark as estimates of the impact of other leading drivers of labor market inequality, including … changes in outsourcing, robot adoption, rising trade, unionization, and the real minimum wage. We also consider a separate …

Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the United States than in continental European countries (CEU) since … the 1970s. Moreover, this inequality gap has further widened during this period as the US has experienced a large increase … in wage inequality, whereas the CEU has seen only modest changes. This paper studies the role of labor income tax …

trade restriction pretty much everywhere. Some concessions to the losers were also manifested by a race towards the top …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

We examine the distributional consequences of trade using the New World Grain Invasion that occurred in the second half … transfers for over 10,000 parishes in England and Wales from 1801-1901. In response to this trade shock, we show that locations … develop a quantitative spatial model to evaluate the income distributional consequences of this trade shock. Undertaking …

constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50% of the world income … and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within-country inequality is …

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's …. Using an extraordinary data base drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose this growth in earnings inequality … into its persistent and transitory components. We find that the growth in earnings inequality reflects both an increase in …

role in US wage inequality. We also propose a methodology for evaluating the full general equilibrium effects of task … groups). Our quantitative evaluation based on this methodology explains how major changes in wage inequality can go hand …