This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … characterized by rising wages across the board, but especially among those at the bottom of the wage distribution in each country … not entirely driven by changes in the wage structure across skill groups. Two-thirds of the decline in the variance of …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the …-earning working households was rising, due in part to an increasing tendency for low-wage men to work part-time. But increasing fiscal … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …

: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing …We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico … Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the relationship between concentration and labor income inequality by …

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …