that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

followed a very similar pattern to top income shares in Australia. We speculate that the reduction in top marginal tax rates …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …

This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We …, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and thereby leading to new patterns of wage inequality. Specifically, our …

neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

importance of initial parental conditions (i.e. the driving force behind the persistence of inequality) enhances mobility and … inequality becomes more persistent. The reduction in the concentration of human capital in technologically-advanced sectors …