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A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory

Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

important implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, and the existence of market power. …

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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Earnings Inequality

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature …

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Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980

Kwon, O Hyun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Deng, Quheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...

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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly … spells of workers at the bottom of the distribution of younger cohorts contribute to explain 30 to 40 % of the overall …

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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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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

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

change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper …

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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the … multiple features of the income distribution (using graphs), rather than focusing on a specific feature such as dispersion, and … application of the methods reveals the multi-faceted nature of UK income distribution trends during the 1980s. …

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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