We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

distinguishing income and wealth inequality. …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … regressions, after a number of robustness checks, indicate that NUTS 2 regions are converging to higher level of income inequality …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …

research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities … coefficients able to summarize the shape of inequalities: a main coefficient, alpha, measures inequality at the median, and two …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …