increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality …We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings … declined. Recentered influence function decompositions show that throughout the earnings distribution, except at the very top …

for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … 10 and 30 percent of the increase in male earnings inequality and 37 to 47 percent of the increase in female earnings …Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours …

recent decades have been: 1) Modest real wage growth; 2) Rising earnings inequality; and 3) Declining labor force …