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This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage …
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We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … relationship between mobility and inequality is complex. For example, a reduction in the interest rate and an increase in the wage … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor …
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It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing … happiness inequality in happiness studies.We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
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This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic … development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process …
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transfer payments, and poverty and inequality are of greatest concern for less developed recipient countries. …
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