. Offshoring alters the matching mechanism, changes the span of control, and thereby influences inequality through differential … increases within-worker inequality in both countries. This outcome provides new insight into the distributional consequences of …

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

We argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i …) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …

Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people … inequality, the existence of inequality aversion has become a generally accepted fact in Economics. This dissertation contributes … to the ensuing debate on causes, consequences, and measurement of inequality. It consists of three essays providing …