changing assortative mating patterns on income inequality. Evidence from theoretical and mathematically calibrated models … variables, we find some evidence to suggest that assortative mating has had an influence on the increase in income inequality in …

-biased technological change, social norms about inequality, and the internationalisation of the market for English-speaking CEOs. …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is therefore the next stage in the research program. At the same time, we …

inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail … inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low inequality and low mobility. To test this, I use panel data from four … countries – Australia, Britain, Germany and the United States – and estimate measures of permanent income inequality that are …