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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality

Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …

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Dynamic Aspects of Earnings Mobility

Lillard, Lee A. - 1976

This paper proposes an econometric methodology to deal with life cycle earnings and mobility among discrete earnings classes. First, we use panel data on male log earnings to estimate an earnings function with permanent and serially correlated transitory components due to both measured and...

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The Distribution of Earnings Profiles in Longitudinal Data

Borjas, George J. - 1976

We take advantage of our longitudinal data to explore individual variation in the parameters of individual earnings functions. (1) For this purpose we fit an earnings function to each of the individual histories in the sample.(2) We then try to ascertain the extent to which the estimated...

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From Age-Earnings Profiles to the Distribution of Earnings and Human Wealth

Lillard, Lee A. - 1973

Recent development of explicit theoretical and empirical earnings functions from life cycle human capital investment models increases the potential to explain existing earnings distributions and to predict changes in it. The purpose of this paper is to suggest how these earnings functions can be...

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Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill

Lochner, Lance - 2020

This paper develops and estimates a two-factor model of intergenerational skill transmission when earnings inequality reflects differences in individual skills and other non-skill shocks. We consider heterogeneity in both initial skills and skill growth rates, allowing variation in skill growth...

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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk - 2009

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Most, but not all, countries experienced substantial increases in wages and earnings …

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Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance : Evidence from Displaced Workers

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2007

This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on...

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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics

Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2006

This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics. We find that (1) income concentration was extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which...

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many measurement and identification difficulties, and...

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Income Dynamics in Sweden 1985-2016

Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...

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