growth. We use this approach to investigate the growth in income inequality in the UK in the 1980s. …

decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth …

insurance (SSDI). Health affects individuals' productivity, SSDI access, disutility from work, mortality, and medical expenses …. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …

decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth … the 1980s and the early 1990s. -- income risk ; consumption ; nonstationarity ; inequality …

growth. We use this approach to investigate the growth in income inequality in the UK in the 1980s. -- income risk … ; inequality ; approximation methods ; consumption …

insurance (SSDI). Health affects individuals’ productivity, SSDI access, disutility from work, mortality, and medical expenses …. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …

investments lead over time to a progressive reduction in inequality. Finally, the framework we describe enables us to formalize …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … with greater self-insurance against permanent shocks and greater smoothing of transitory shocks. Comparisons of RLMS data …

This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and … institute (CBOS) from 1992 to 2005, we identify a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and subjective … well-being. The downturn in the tolerance for inequality (1997) coincides with increasing distrust of political elites. …