Income and Wealth Inequality
Leaders: Nicholas Bloom, Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez
The CPI is home to some of the country’s most influential analyses of the income and wealth distribution. The purpose of the Income and Wealth RG is to monitor the ongoing takeoff in income inequality, to better understand its sources, and to analyze its implications for labor market performance, educational attainment, mobility, and more. The following is a sampling of the CPI’s research projects within this area.
Trends in income and wealth inequality: What are the key trends in U.S. income and wealth inequality? The U.S. increasingly looks to Emmanuel Saez and his research team for the latest data on U.S. economic inequality.
Distributional National Accounts: In an ambitious infrastructural project, Emmanuel Saez and his team are building a “Distributional National Accounts” based on tax returns, a data set that will eliminate the current gap between (a) national accounts data based on economic aggregates and (b) inequality analysis that uses micro-level tax data to examine the distribution of income but is not consistent with national aggregates. This new data set will in turn make it possible to evaluate the extent to which economic growth, which has long been represented as a preferred poverty-reduction approach, is indeed delivering on that objective.
The rise of between-firm inequality: How much of the rise in earnings inequality can be attributed to increasing between-firm dispersion in the average wages they pay? This question can be addressed by constructing a matched employer-employee data set for the United States using administrative records.
Rent and inequality: It is increasingly fashionable to argue that “rent” accounts for much of the takeoff in income inequality. The Current Population Survey can be used to assess whether this claim is on the mark.
Featured Examples
Income And Wealth - CPI Research
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Executive Compensation: Six Questions that Need Answering | John M. Abowd and David S. Kaplan |
Executive Compensation: Six Questions that Need AnsweringAuthor: John M. Abowd and David S. KaplanPublisher: Date: |
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Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium | Kate Antonovics and Robert Town |
Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage PremiumAuthor: Kate Antonovics and Robert TownPublisher: American Economic Review Date: |
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The Achieving Society | David C. McClelland | ||
A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism | Nee, Victor |
A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State SocialismAuthor: Nee, VictorPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status | Robert Max Jackson |
Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's StatusAuthor: Robert Max JacksonPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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income and wealth - CPI Affiliates
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Linda Darling-Hammond |
Charles Ducommon Emeritus Professor of Education; Co-Director, School Redesign Network (SRN) |
Stanford University |
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Duane Alwin |
McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography, Director, Center on Population Health and Aging |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Samuel R. Lucas |
Professor of Sociology; Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Lisa Catanzarite |
Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce & UNITE-LA; Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University |
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce & UNITE-LA |
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Edward B. Montgomery |
Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy; Research Associate, National Bureau for Economic Research; Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration |
Georgetown University |
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Income And Wealth - Other Research
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False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness | Stanley Aronowitz |
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class ConsciousnessAuthor: Stanley AronowitzPublisher: Duke University Press Date: |
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International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces | Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn |
International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market ForcesAuthor: Francine Blau and Lawrence KahnPublisher: Journal of Political Economy Date: |
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Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis | Peter B. Doeringer and Michael J. Piore |
Internal Labor Markets and Manpower AnalysisAuthor: Peter B. Doeringer and Michael J. PiorePublisher: M E Sharpe, Inc Date: |
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Changes in the Structure of Wages in the 1980’s: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations | John Bound and George Johnson |
Changes in the Structure of Wages in the 1980’s: An Evaluation of Alternative ExplanationsAuthor: John Bound and George JohnsonPublisher: American Economic Review Date: |
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The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality | Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson |
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender InequalityAuthor: Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen GersonPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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