"Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data."

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Is finance responsible for the rise in wage inequality in France (2012, background): “In the USA, for instance, the same ratio rose continuously by 27% between 1973 and 2000 (Atkinson, 2008, pp. 411–412); in the UK it increased by 20% between 1977 and 2000 (Atkinson, 2008, pp. 384–385).”
It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent (2013, background): “One useful set of comparisons comes from Bakija, Cole, and Heim (2012), who study IRS tax return data for a number of years between 1979 and 2005.”
Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence (2017, unknown): “1 By 2014, the median CEO in the S&P 500 earned $10.1 million per year, which is substantially higher than in other countries and represents a sixfold increase since 1980. Pay of the average worker has risen much more slowly. Across the S&P 500, the average ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was”
Substitutes or Complements? A Configurational Examination of Corporate Governance Mechanisms (2014, methodology): “CEOs of the S&P 1500 firms are among the top 1% of the income distribution in the U.S.A. (Bakija et al., 2010) (see also Table 1) and thus we calibrated this fuzzy set using the same thresholds as just described for non-TMT inside director ownership (fully out $860,000; crossover $4.93 million;…”