In this paper, we present new findings that validate earlier literature on the apparent segmentation of the US earnings distribution. Previous contributions posited that the observed distribution of earnings combined two or three distinct signals and was thus appropriately modeled as a finite...

In this paper, we present new findings that validate earlier literature on the apparent segmentation of the US earnings distribution. Previous contributions posited that the observed distribution of earnings combined two or three distinct signals and was thus appropriately modeled as a finite...

This paper studies the evolution of the earnings distribution from 1995 to 2010 of four major de- mographic groups are considered separately, which shows that there are important differences in the experience of inequality that imply that race and gender are not separable when it comes to...