Accounting for the U.S. Earnings and Wealth Inequality. Castañeda, A., Díaz-Giménez, Javier, & Ríos-Rull, José-Victor Journal of Political Economy, 111(4):818–857, The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Link doi abstract bibtex We show that a theory of earnings and wealth inequality, based on the optimal choices of ex ante identical households that face uninsured idiosyncratic shocks to their endowments of efficiency labor units, accounts for the U.S. earnings and wealth inequality almost exactly.
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