We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate … earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural … family income that integrate individual earnings, marriage (accounting for marital sorting), and earnings of a spouse (if …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences in household net wealth within and between euro area countries … wealth percentiles. At the same time, each additional percentile in the income distribution is associated with about 0.4 net …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

We estimate an income process that is consistent with key facts on individual income risk and its variation over the … business cycle. In particular, the estimated process generates income fluctuations that display (i) flat and acyclical variance … over the life cycle, all consistent with the US data. Furthermore, the income process captures the predictable nature of …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …

reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate …

reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate …