In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and … new trade barriers. Looking across areas, we find that exposure to new Brexit trade barriers is uncorrelated with measures …

Trade liberalization affects real-wage inequality through two channels: the distribution of nominal wages across … heterogeneity across jobs. I parametrize the model for 40 regions using sector-level trade and production data and find that China …. On net, real-wage inequality falls in the two countries in the baseline case. …

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience … premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the … primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail (50/10) inequality. Relative labor supply is important for explaining …

by personal inequality, capital intensity and trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and … increasing financial assets and financial payments. Using counterfactual simulations, we show that trade is the most stable and … inequality, although financialisation is the most important factor in absolute terms. In the post-Great Recession years of tense …

capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …

of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …