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 …

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 …

schema in explaining wage inequality. Regression-based inequality estimations confirm the role played by social classes …

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 …

schema in explaining wage inequality. Regression-based inequality estimations confirm the role played by social classes …

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 …

This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …

This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability … of declining pay inequality across Europe for this period, which is due mainly to the rising (initially, negative …

Unemployment and earnings inequality have moved closely together in South Africa in recent years, suggesting that there … unemployment and earnings inequality in South Africa, specifically investigating the extent to which changes in unemployment can … account for changes in earnings inequality. Decomposing overall income inequality by factor source shows the overwhelming …