This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

path of inequality is not due to sam-pling variation. The secular trend in consumption expenditure inequality is found to … be downward sloped. Inequality declines sharply at the beginning of the century, increases during the great depression …

different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system … they will have low earnings; single women; women in couples; and men in couples. Over a 15-month period, boosting the … credit appears to have raised the labor participation rates, hours, and earnings of those who were eligible to receive it. …

Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence … need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the … earnings growth. We apply this simple idea to Japanese and UK data. We find that tenure effects on earnings are positive but …

is related to the measure of risk emphasized by the theory. We first discriminate amongst various models of earnings …-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the income shocks is …

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … earnings of men in non-manual, or women in full-time, employment and find a positive effect for women in part-time employment …

This Paper uses a new data set drawn from official earnings records kept by the French national statistical agency …

impact of a minimum wage rise on inequality. …