We study the short and long run responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas rent shocks in Iran … and statistically significant response of income inequality to oil rent booms within 4 years of the shock. In addition … per capita leads to an approximately 1.4-percent increase in income inequality. The results are robust to controlling for …

distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … higher house prices, this does not necessarily imply that this stochastic dominance relation also exists in the distribution … of skills. Instead, we find there is second-order stochastic dominance in the skill distribution. The demand for skills …

, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage … inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages … multinationals meaningfully contributes to wage inequality, both between and within firms. Finally, our back …