This paper studies earnings inequality and dynamics in Argentina between 1996 and 2015. Following the 2001-2002 crisis … monthly frequency of regular wage adjustments almost doubled, while the distribution of changes in regular wages morphed from …

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early … 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact … real earnings across the entire distribution for men and women and decreasing inequality over more than 20 years. Despite …

inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD … inequality has increased and volatility has decreased. The combination of increased inequality and reduced volatility suggest …

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …

more redistribution. Skewness is almost always assumed to be identical to inequality. But this will only be true under … then, the relationship between inequality and skewness -- and therefore redistribution -- is ambiguous. This paper resolves … specific assumptions, and it is possible for an increase in inequality to be associated with a decrease in skewness. In general …

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 …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income … inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …

of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the …What are the principal sources of posttax-posttransfer inequality in affluent countries? To what extent do inequality …-posttransfer inequality? I explore these issues in a comparative fashion, focusing on the experiences of twelve countries - Denmark, Finland …