impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, selfemployment remains constrained to low …-productivity agricultural or trading activities, with little earnings stability and little potential for long term earnings growth. Prospects …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings, income and consumption inequality and contribute to their fluctuation. The … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality …. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total inequality is attributable …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary …

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 …