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Fair Earnings Tax Reforms
Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023
social welfare measure to evaluate four hypothetical earnings tax reforms for Belgian singles. The degree of compensation for …
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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full … substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings …
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Structural Reforms and Income Distribution : New Evidence for OECD Countries
Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; de Haan, Jakob - 2023
This paper examines the impact of labour market and product market reforms on income inequality for 25 OECD countries, using the local projections approach and updates of the reform indicators put together by Duval et al. (2018) until 2020. Our results suggest that both types of (endogenized)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262698
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COVID-19 and Income Inequality : Evidence from Monthly Population Registers
Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021
. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals …
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Hours Inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US …
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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest
Krieger, Tim - 2020
This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
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Trade, Education, and Income Inequality
Brueckner, Markus - 2020
This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...
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Trade and the Distribution of Human Capital
Riezman, Raymond G.; Bougheas, Spiros - 2021
We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference between the two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that even if the two countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern of trade depends on the properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318467
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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy
Rubolino, Enrico - 2022
This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293026
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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