-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect … income groups, hence democratization may have only a negligible effect on inequality. On the other hand, in societies where …

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 …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …