Sources of inequality: measuring the contributions of Income sources to rising family income inequality

摘要

We develop a simulation method for measuring the impact of changes in the distributions of the main income sources on growth in family income inequality. We simulate the entire distribution of family income under the counterfactual, "What if the distribution of each source had not changed": The simulation method allows us to evaluate the impact of changes at any point in the distribution as well as with multiple measures of inequality.