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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279274
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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646310
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763901
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598554
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959748
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Revisiting the German Wage Structure
Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233908
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403384
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555240
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The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in the variance of returns to schooling is due to increased uncertainty. Using conventional measures of income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761726
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What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Lena; Lindquist, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
specific knowledge of what it is about family background that really matters. Studies on intergenerational income mobility show … that parental income matters to some extent, but they also show that more than half of the family background and community … influences that siblings share are not even correlated with parental income. In this paper, we employ a data set that contains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761927