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How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country : Evidence from Thai Tax Returns

Muthitacharoen, Athiphat; Burong, Trongwut - 2023

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...

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Modelling low pay transition probabilities, accounting for panel attrition, non-response, and initial conditions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2004

We model annual low pay transition probabilities taking account of three potentially endogenous selections: two sample drop-out mechanisms (panel attrition, non-employment) and ?initial conditions? (base-year low pay status). This model, and variants that ignore one or more of these selection...

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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre Andrade de; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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A structural model of demand for apprentices

Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005

using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

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The connexion between old and new approaches to financial satisfaction

van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2004

In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...

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Tracking and Taxing the Super-Rich : Insights from Swiss Rich Lists

Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel - 2022

magazine to gain new insights on the structure and dynamics of top wealth in Switzerland. Using this data allows us study the … super-rich in Switzerland in ways that were not possible in previous research based largely on tax data. In addition to … literature. First, we present a number of new facts on the wealth elite in Switzerland. We show that about 60% of the super …

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Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality : An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P. - 2019

setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce …

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Does a Progressive Wealth Tax Reduce Top Wealth Inequality? Evidence from Switzerland

Marti, Samira; Martínez, Isabel; Scheuer, Florian - 2023

Like in many other countries, wealth inequality has increased in Switzerland over the last fifty years. By providing …

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Wealth-Income Ratios in Free Market Capitalism : Switzerland, 1900-2020

Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel - 2022

We estimate the ratio of private wealth to national income, βpt, for Switzerland from 1900 to 2020. Our results … Switzerland’s capital friendly policy-making. Since the turn of the century, however, βpt has been on a rapid rise to reach 793 …

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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

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