-access Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 1970 to 2019 to study how Walmart Supercenter openings affect poverty, tax … Supercenter leads to a 2 percentage point (16%) increase in poverty. This increase is channeled through declining annual earnings … and persists for 10 years following the Supercenter's entry. Increases in poverty are particularly strong for younger and …

upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or …

distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization …

jobs but substitute workers in routine manual jobs in the middle of the wage distribution, who relocate to low paying …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

the distribution of accepted wages. We find that after controlling for frictions, mobility costs are one order of …