The rise in American inequality has been exaggerated both in magnitude and timing. Commentators lament the large gap … timing of the rise of inequality is often misunderstood. By some measures inequality stopped growing after 2000 and by others … inequality has not grown since 1993. This cessation of inequality's secular rise in 2000 is evident from the growth of Census …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …