This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality. …

extent skill-compensating investments are important as ex-ante income inequality reduction mechanisms in the private …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … find this to be true, but not for the reason predicted by theory. Virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small-yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …