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 …

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 …

in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this paper, we use rich Norwegian data to answer these important questions …'s income matters less for the dynamics of inequality over the life-cycle. …

in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this paper, we use rich Norwegian data to answer these important questions …'s income matters less for the dynamics of inequality over the life-cycle. …