substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises - a pattern that is indeed … therefore not always useful in terms of understanding why broad inequality measures are changing. …

for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … reweighting the conditional hours distribution. Depending on the inequality measure considered, our results suggest that between … 10 and 30 percent of the increase in male earnings inequality and 37 to 47 percent of the increase in female earnings …