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differences in social mobility and persistence. …
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lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …
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differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …
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differences in social mobility and persistence …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990. Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...
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inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
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inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136651
We leverage survey data from Germany, Italy, and the US to document several novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among firms and households. First, firms’ expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and aggregate unemployment are more aligned with...
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