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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Dalgic, Basak; Güven, Aytekin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing … of the highest among the European Union (EU) countries. The wage mobility in Turkey is lower than what is observed in the …

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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839287

Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S.; Alessie, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and remained fairly constant in the second half of the...

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyses the dynamic structure of individual earnings across 14 EU countries over the period 1994-2001 using ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from a welfare perspective, particularly given the large...

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an economy dominated by the tertiary sector, which relies heavily on the cross-border workforce. This paper explored the implications of these labour market structural changes for...

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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...

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Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of earnings over time? This 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...

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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...

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