complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …

The present work aims to contribute to a better understanding of the determinants of wage inequality focussing on the … explaining wage inequality I attempt a re-evaluation of its role starting from the premise that globalization, technical change … three phenomena as possible explanations for inequality distinguishes the present study from most previous contributions …

human capital inequality and technology adoption decisions. …

product market strategies, but also shed light on patterns of income inequality within and between industries.Building on this … contribution of worker and firm reallocation to within-industry changes in earnings inequality. We find that the entry and exit of … distributions over time. However, the importance of these and other factors in driving observed dynamics in earnings inequality …

economic dimensions of this decision, and conclude that political stability, democracy, income inequality, as well as the …

between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various … common element in these variousspecifications. While income inequality increases the pressure for redistribution it … empirical evidencefor a positive relationship between income inequality and redistribution.The second substantive essay …

heterogeneity and permanent shocks to skills. I find that a large fraction of life-cycle income inequality is driven by match … dynamics and investigate if recent increases in residual inequality are caused by an increase of the variances of permanent …, persistent or transitory shocks. My results suggest that underlying sources of increasing wage inequality are very different …

This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in … evolution of income inequality in Vietnam between 1993 and 2006. We construct consistent estimates of annual household income … reduction in inequality between 1993 and 2002 and an unchanged level of inequality between 2002 and 2006. We find that strong …