studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the …

and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that …

or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. …

I characterize how house price shocks affect consumption inequality using a life-cycle model of housing and non …-housing consumption with incomplete markets. I derive analytical expressions for the dynamics of inequalities and use these to analyze … large house prices swings seen in the UK. I show that movements in consumption inequality were large, that they correspond …