Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To
demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of …

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open‐access, cross‐country
database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and …

This paper empirically studies the distributional consequences of affirmative action in the
context of a centralized college admission system. We examine the effects of a large-scale …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap
due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country,
namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train …

This paper studies earnings inequality and dynamics in Argentina between 1996 and 2015.
Following the 2001–2002 crisis, the Argentine economy transitioned from a low‐to a high …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in
Mexico using social security records for the period 2005–2019. The analysis is based on a …

We document a set of empirical findings regarding the distributional effects of monetary
policy on labor income growth and on employment transitions in Brazil, a setting where …

This paper develops a new data-driven approach to characterizing latent worker skill and
job task heterogeneity by applying an empirical tool from network theory to large-scale …

How do minimum wages affect earnings inequality in countries with large informal sectors? I
provide reduced-form evidence that the 2000s minimum wage hike in Brazil raised overall …