) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …

Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, depending on the circumstances. The nature of this … relationship matters at the city level as well. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan … over time. A higher per capita income level was associated with a lower within-MSA inequality level in earlier years, but …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …