What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

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 book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been
changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened …

This paper analyzes distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We
focus on four distinct distributions: the distribution of hourly wage rates, the distribution of …

We use 2‐year panels from the Current Population Survey to provide a detailed accounting
of family income volatility from 1980 to 2009. Volatility doubled overall, and the increase was …

We offer new evidence on earnings volatility of men and women in the United States over
the past four decades by using matched data from the March Current Population Survey. We …

The growing economic resemblance of spouses has contributed to rising inequality by
increasing the number of couples in which there are two high-or two low-earning partners …

We analyze trends in US size-adjusted household income inequality between 1975 and
2004 using the most commonly used data source—the public use version of the March …

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research
community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the …

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of
levels and trends in US earnings and income inequality. However, time‐inconsistency …