financial wage premium in the distribution of income varies across advanced economies. We address this gap in the empirical … literature by examining the financial wage premium across the labor income distributions of 13 advanced economies since the 1980s … using harmonized labor force data from multiple waves of the Luxembourg Income Study. Consistent with prior studies, we find …

intensity" (RTI) and "offshorability" (OFFS) for use with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. To produce these data, we … 38 LIS countries and 160 LIS country-years. To assess the validity of these recodes, we compare average labor-income … OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor …

Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of … others' wellbeing on the judgment of the group's own situation. The indices, and related relative income change (RIC) curves …

measures. It finds that the main source of negative disposable incomes is negative self-employment income, and that high tax …, or even better, than other households in terms of material wellbeing. By contrast, zero-income households are found to be …

We estimate capital and labor income Pareto exponents across 348 country-year observations that span 51 countries over … half a century. We document two stylized facts: (i) capital income is more unequally distributed than labor income; namely … explain these findings, we build an incomplete market model with job ladders and capital income risk that gives rise to a …

. Using a novel harmonized dataset provided by the Luxembourg Income Study and the Economic Research Forum, we find evidence …

This chapter argues income and wealth are two paramount gradational measures of social stratification. The chapter … makes this case while reviewing recent social science on income and wealth. First, I begin by explaining how income and … wealth are essential for purchasing well-being. Second, I review the definition and measurement of income and wealth. This …