Lehner, Lukas; Parolin, Zachary; Wilmers, Nathan - 2024
From 2010 to 2019, personal earnings inequality declined in the United States (U.S.) for the first time in decades, yet … household income inequality continued to increase. Discordance between trends in personal earnings inequality and household … income inequality was greater than in any other decade in recent U.S. history. We introduce a framework to decompose …