In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's …. Using an extraordinary data base drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose this growth in earnings inequality … into its persistent and transitory components. We find that the growth in earnings inequality reflects both an increase in …

as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage inequality … and income inequality, whereas greater worker heterogeneity has ambiguous effects. We also find that labor market … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …