We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality …, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with … that model. As a result, economists moved away from trade as a plausible explanation for rising income inequality. In …

inequality contributes to a host of social ills by weakening the public sector. In contrast, we find that growing income … inequality is associated with an expansion in revenues and expenditures on a wide range of services at the municipal and school …