Rising income inequality from the mid-1990s to the present was characterized by rapid
income growth among top earners and new patterns of employment and income pooling …

Inequality in income, earnings, and wealth has risen dramatically in the United States over
the past three decades. Most research into this issue has focused on the causes—global …

▪ Abstract Median income in the United States has fallen and the distribution of income has
grown markedly more unequal over the past three decades, reversing a general pattern of …

The increase in economic disparities over the past 30 years has prompted extensive
research on the causes and consequences of inequality both in the United States and, more …

Sociologists have contributed relatively little to our understanding of rising inequality of
earnings and income in the United States. The author considers both why that has been the …

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income
distribution in the 21st century? Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble …

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States,
integrating data from the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics …

Martina Morris and Mark Western's judgement of the contribution made by sociologists to the
study of the changing structure of income inequality in recent years is both accurate and …

One of the big itcrease in income inequality. Inequality grew ne of the" big stories" in
American economic life in the 1980s as the economic expansion of the latter half of the …

The upswing in economic inequality that has affected a number of advanced industrial
societies in the late 20th century has been particularly conspicuous in the United States. The …