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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over …

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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...

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Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing …

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...

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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland

Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Savage, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable property bubble, an exceptionally severe banking crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines...

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