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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Four Gloomy Futures for Sex Segregation | David B. Grusky, Asaf Levanon |
Four Gloomy Futures for Sex SegregationAuthor: David B. Grusky, Asaf LevanonPublisher: Westview Press Date: 01/2007 |
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The Rise and Fall of Benign Narratives about Inequality | David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi |
The Rise and Fall of Benign Narratives about InequalityAuthor: David B. Grusky, Szonja SzelenyiPublisher: Westview Press Date: 01/2006 |
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Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family Structure | Kelly Musick, Robert D. Mare |
Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family StructureAuthor: Kelly Musick, Robert D. MarePublisher: Social Science Research Date: 01/2004 |
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule Flexibility | Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S Krause |
The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule FlexibilityAuthor: Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S KrausePublisher: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Date: 01/2003 |
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Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others? | Kim A. Weeden |
Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others?Author: Kim A. WeedenPublisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: 07/2002 |
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income and wealth - CPI Affiliates
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Robert H. Topel |
Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor in Urban and Labor Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research |
The University of Chicago |
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Paul Beaudry |
Professor |
University of British Columbia |
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John Goldthorpe |
Emeritus Fellow, Sociology |
Nuffield College |
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Robert J. Flanagan |
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis, Emeritus |
Stanford University |
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Paul M. De Graaf |
Professor of Cross-national and Longitudinal Analyzes of Socio-cultural processes |
University of Tilburg |
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Income And Wealth - Other Research
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Disorder in the Life Course: How Common and Does it Matter? | Rindfuss, Ronald, C. Gray Swicegood, and Rachel A... |
Disorder in the Life Course: How Common and Does it Matter?Author: Rindfuss, Ronald, C. Gray Swicegood, and Rachel A...Publisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs | Paul Willis |
Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class JobsAuthor: Paul WillisPublisher: Columbia University Press Date: |
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Inequality and Growth Revisited | Robert Barro | ||
America Unequal | Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk |
America UnequalAuthor: Sheldon Danziger and Peter GottschalkPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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Economic Segmentation, Worker Power, and Income Inequality | Kalleberg, Arne. L., Michael Wallace and Robert P... |
Economic Segmentation, Worker Power, and Income InequalityAuthor: Kalleberg, Arne. L., Michael Wallace and Robert P...Publisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: |
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