The phenomenon of 'job polarisation' is increasing inequality as the labour market splits into high- and low-wage work …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral …

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …