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

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … inequality in the four countries correspond to their mortgage take up rates and its distribution across income, reflecting the …

We present data from the Survey of Consumer Finances showing that the increased earnings (labor income) inequality, in … model in Fama and French (2002). -- labor income ; earnings inequality ; asset pricing ; equity premium ; limited …

inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD … inequality has increased and volatility has decreased. The combination of increased inequality and reduced volatility suggest …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

In this paper, we present a unified treatment of and explanation for the evolution of wages and employment in the U ….S. over the last 30 years. Specifically, we account for the pattern of changes in wage inequality, for the increased relative …

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution … hypothesis. It is also consistent with the available empirical evidence on within-firm income redistribution. …

results indicate an increase in long-run earnings inequality of roughly the same magnitude as the trend seen in annual …