Earnings inequality and the business cycle

Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association between Spouses' Earnings.

Increases in the association between spouses' earnings have the potential to increase inequality as marriages increasingly consist of two high-earning or two low-earning partners. This article uses log-linear models and data from the March Current Population Survey to describe trends in the association between spouses' earnings and estimate their contribution to growing earnings inequality amon...

Workforce Composition and Earnings Inequality

As the United States passed through another election phase last fall, we again heard about the increasingly unequal earnings prospects of America’s workforce. While there are many suggested remedies, making educational opportuniies more available to all is the most common.1 Proponents of this approach believe that rising returns to education can be attenuated by increasing the supply of highly ...

Internet, Literacy and Earnings Inequality

The emergence of the knowledge society seems a main feature of developed economies at the start of the 21 century. There is no question that new information technologies (NIT) represent a source of wealth for a society taken as a whole. The question of the impact of these technologies on distribution issues, either at a national level or at an international one remains open. Newspapers, for ins...

Business Cycle Features In The Iranian Economy

Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006

Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006 This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two parts, we find that both components are important contributors to the total variance of earnings. We also find that the share of the transitory par...