-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality … shock increases the profit share and the within-workers inequality (in real terms), since low-wage workers are more affected …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …