between the growth rates of real median household income and of private sector productivity. This paper shows that a … mean vs. median income, and in the income share of the top one percent of the income distribution. The income share of the … 91st to 95th percentile has not increased since 1983, and the income ratio of the 90th to 10th percentile has barely …

: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill … in the income distribution, particularly at the top. We conclude that changes in labor's share play no role in rising … inequality of labor income; by one measure labor's income share was almost the same in 2007 as in 1950. Within the bottom 90 …

rose thereafter, a pattern consistent with technological change driving long term trends in income inequality and mobility …. Greater wealth mobility in recent decades is also consistent with the simultaneous rise in top income shares and relatively …

point to which his book has guided us. The main path to follow is the income inequality history so well paved by Piketty and …'s emphasis on wealth, capital, and the rate of return. Following the income route to better inequality predictions requires … merging his team's history of top income shares with the history of inequality movements within the lower 90 percent. It also …

A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But … our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income … distribution. We show that over the entire period 1966-2001, as well as over 1997-2001, only the top 10 percent of the income …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …