In his widely discussed book 'Fault Lines'(2010), Raghuram Rajan argues that many low
and middle income consumers have reduced their saving and increased debt since income …

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 …

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing
them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of …

The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30
years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking …

We study the rise of the so-called 'gig economy'through the lens of Uber and its drivers in the
United Kingdom. Using administrative data from Uber and a new representative survey of …

This paper analyzes the role of establishments in the upward trend in dispersion of earnings
that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes …

The economic boom of the 1990s veiled a grim reality: in addition to the growing gap
between rich and poor, the gap between good and bad quality jobs was also expanding …

The rise of inequality in advanced economies, and in particular the growing concentration of
incomes at the top of the distribution, has become a greater focus of attention for economists …

From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34
to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in …

The paper studies how high household leverage and crises can be caused by changes in
the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920–1929 and 1983–2008 both exhibited …