This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect …

The phenomenon of 'job polarisation' is increasing inequality as the labour market splits into high- and low-wage work …

bolster political incentives through contributions. Economies with a stronger middle class due to lower inequality or lower …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors … reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than …

financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might …

This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality …