. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the … top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage inequality started to rise also at the bottom of the distribution. Hence … substantial part of the increase in inequality, in particular at the top of the distribution. We further argue that selection into …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. The findings suggest that inequality between the 90 …

inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … direct attention to the fundamental role of establishment-level pay setting and economic adjustments in earnings inequality. …

than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita. …

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these … implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity …. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity. …