This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence … the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality boosts up the rise of …

inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …

The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of male German … exhibits a positive effect. Trade seems to depress occupational mobility and internal movement, but stimulates inter …-firm changes. Immigration affects intra-firm changes negatively, but is largely unrelated to other aspects of labour mobility. …

inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what …One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to …

accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the mobility up the occupational ladder in the host country. Using human …

This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to … the idea that a more regulated institutional framework reduces individual mobility within the wage distribution. …