On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. -- Income distribution ; poverty …

increasingly sorting into internally homogeneous marriages. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition analysis where we … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …