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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Chapter 16. Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1369-1418). 2015
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intrahousehold...
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The Global Life-Cycle Optimizer – Analyzing Fiscal Policy's Potential to Dramatically Distort Labor Supply and Saving
Brumm, Johannes; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Krause, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...
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Estimating the distributional impact of the Greek crisis (2009-2014)
Leventi, Chrysa; Matsaganis, Manos - 2016
Estimating the impact of the crisis on income distribution requires up-to-date information. Due to the complexity of income surveys such as EU-SILC, income data usually become available with considerable delay. In this context, micro-simulation models are an appropriate and widely used...
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Work incentives and universal credit : reform of the benefit system in the United Kingdom
Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2013
Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into … one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity … and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce the number of workless households by between 45 000 and 240 …
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
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Der Einfluss der Agenda 2010 auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Christensen, Björn - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 53 (2004) 1, pp. 95-119
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Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage : Mobility or Immobility Across Generations?
D'Addio, Anna - 2007
This report surveys the research in OECD countries on intergenerational mobility – i.e. the extent to which key characteristics and life experiences of individuals differ from those of their parents. A number of findings emerge: Intergenerational earnings mobility varies significantly across...
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The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the...
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