earnings inequality without significant changes in within firm inequality. The estimated model fits the earnings distribution … inequality is largely due to the increase in her educational attainment over the same years. A simulation of skilled biased … technical change in the model also qualitatively fits the recent changes in earnings inequality in the United States. …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …

the United States. The four components of the economic security domain of the IEWB – security from unemployment, illness … should one measure trends in economic security? Projections of the Index to 2010, computed on the basis of OECD unemployment …

effects of unemployment go well beyond loss of income. Roughly 60 per cent of the newly unemployed, compared to about 40 per …

, but the reductions were not nearly as large as the increase in wealth inequality. The unemployment rate is down to a … record low for the 1981-2008 period, and yet the incidence of long-term unemployment is higher now than in 1981. Economic …