China¡¯s market-oriented reform is expected to strengthen the role of the market in allocating resources, which raises concerns over the impact of market transformation on income distribution and earnings inequality in the past decades. This paper decomposes the sources of inequality based on...

Diese Dissertation beinhaltet vier Artikel. Im ersten Artikel werden Daten zu (finanziellem) Vermögen und Einkommen in Österreich anhand einer Faktorzerlegung der Verteilung dieser Indikatoren analysiert. Zu den Ergebnissen zählt die Dokumentation der Unterschiede zwischen Einkommen und...

This paper shows that skill mismatch is a significant source of inequality in real earnings in the U.S. and that a substantial fraction of the increase in wage dispersion during the period 1973-2002 was due to the increase in mismatch rates and mismatch premia. In 2000-2002 surplus and deficit...