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. …

returns to schooling both for developed and developing countries. However, researchers have not made many attempts to identify … policy implications about the nature of the private vs. social returns to schooling. …

This study investigates the dynamics of between-group and within-group wage inequality in a model with heterogeneous … process of human capital accumulation, the skill premium increases, then wage inequality among skilled workers, as measured by … an upward shift in the between-group inequality and inequality among skilled workers. We also demonstrate that the …

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully … central to the evolution of inequality during the development process. We characterise development thresholds when countries … that are consistent with the cross-country data on inequality and skill-premia. …