Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income … inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …

. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …

factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …