We study the determinants of lifetime earnings (LE) inequality in the United States, for which differences in lifetime …

; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is de … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …

information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is …

information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the …

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … inequality is in both countries a consequence of rising upper tail dispersion. Contrary to the U.S. experience, where the rise is …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …