over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States, integrating data from the … Finances. In order to understand how different dimensions of inequality are related via choices, markets, and institutions, we … wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

We examine how technological change affects wage inequality and unemployment in a calibrated model of matching …, and (ii) the total amount of wage inequality generated by frictions is very small. We explain these findings in light of …

inequality when workers are ex-ante equal, but their adaptability to new technologies is subject to stochastic factors that are … the demand for adaptable workers. In the model the rise in within-group inequality is mainly transitory, and is mirrored …

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …