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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Gradín, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects … explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education 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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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we use test scores of PISA in mathematics, science and reading achievement of 15-year-olds over the period 2003-2012. Since the different waves of the samples cover only a fraction...

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Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...

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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 the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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