For more information on Relative Distribution Methods, including the preface to the book, data sets, and software to implement the methods are available from the Relative Distribution website. The main software is the R software package reldist: Tools for the comparison of distributions.
Some previous research suggests that discrepancies exist between the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Current Population Survey in terms of earnings trends; when the sample is limited to full-time, year-round workers, however, the …
We present an outline of relative distribution methods, with an application to recent changes in the U.S. wage distribution. Relative distribution methods are a nonparametric statistical framework for analyzing data in a fully distributional …
The recent closing of the gender wage gap is often attributed to increases in women's human capital. This explanation neglects the effect of growing inequality in men's earnings. The authors develop a decomposition that allows them to test how …
Two positions dominate the debate over the recent increases in economic inequality in the United States. The 'job-skill mismatch' thesis attributes rising inequality to growth in the number of high-skill, high-wage jobs that leaves less-skilled …