This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …

China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … reduce inequality. However, little is known about whether this belief is empirically supported. To this end, we employ a … developed countries. Our result implies that education indeed reduces earnings inequality while increasing individuals' earnings …

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …

segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the … wage inequality was roughly 13 percentage points larger than the impact of changes in average wages alone. Similar findings …

substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …