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 …This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality …

This paper argues that the assumption of a homogeneous workforce, which is implicitly invoked in the decomposition … of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …