Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70482 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2013-21
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Based on Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), the author presents evidence that the rise of income/consumption inequality over the past decades is more significant among younger households. This is consistent with the theory that the secular rise of inequality is due to increasing heterogeneity in earning ability. The author further shows that such age-specificity implies significant changes to the previously documented life-cycle profiles of inequality which are the basis of many important economic inferences.
Subjects: 
age-specific inequality
consumption inequality
income inequality
life-cycle profile
JEL: 
C81
E21
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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