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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades: A Tale of Two Countries

Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Sommer, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our...

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Where Did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income

Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income distribution. We show that over the entire period...

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household … contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative mating accounts for a … non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However, changes in assortative mating over …

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been …

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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....

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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Solon, Gary; Lee, Chul-In - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the...

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Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...

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