lead to higher inequality across firms, increased segregation of labour markets and decreased within-firm inequality. This … workplace systems. Our results suggest that HPWOs increase both across and within firm inequality. We do not find evidence …

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

countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …

his reputation for truth telling, we show that the larger the inequality, the less information can credibly be transmitted … to the policy-maker. We also investigate the effects of inequality on welfare, and discuss the welfare effects of …

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We … within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage … inequality within groups. Under certain assumptions, it also helps to explain (3) the polarization of the income distribution …