Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts
整理了劳动力市场收入分配变化的基本事实，指出二战后家庭总收入和个人劳动收入快速增长且不平等程度稳定的局面在1970年代结束，此后实际平均收入增长缓慢但收入不平等显著上升，而流动性变化不大。
This essay brings together the factual material on changes in the distribution of labor market income that any of the theories addressed in the other papers in this symposium must address. The broad stylized facts are that the rapid growth and stable level of inequality of both total family income and individual labor market that marked the postwar period came to an end during the 1970s. Real mean earnings grew very little but inequality of earnings rose substantially. This reflected increases both in inequality between education and experience groups and within groups. Mobility showed little change over this period.