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This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance …, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that based on administrative data, is relatively limited in developing …
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This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between … upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic … earnings mobility (either upwards or downwards) although the effect is stronger among women of high reproductive age …
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This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance …, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that based on administrative data, is relatively limited in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262489
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the publicprivate sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129773
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177639
The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
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This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271608
Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...
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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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