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in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …
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-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
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what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good … proxy for lifetime mobility. We used the Shorrocks (1978) and the Fields (2008) index. Moreover, we explored the impact of …
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question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 … using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures which capture positional movements in the distribution of earnings …. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among …
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This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal migration. We derive an extension of the Roback (1982) model to account for benefits from regional amenities in the utility function, while controlling for income, housing costs, and...
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Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors recommend using fixed effects models thereby...
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This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...
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