This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have … unconditional quantile partial effects of children along UK and US men's earnings distributions. In the 1970s, most UK and US … fathers enjoyed a modest premium regardless of their relative earnings, which decreased as number of children increased. This …

older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and …, earnings distribution statistics for the working age population have emphasized within-cohort disparities that are largest at …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality …. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total inequality is attributable …