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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; VanKerm, Philippe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.Â The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.Â For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.Â We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...

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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.Â We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.Â In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...

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Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action

Bardhan, Pranab; Singh, Nirvikar - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2004

) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private productive assets. …

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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans.Â However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector and theoretical reasons...

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses?Â The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.Â Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...

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