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We apply a partial identification analysis using comprehensive Norwegian register data to investigate the causal effect of father’s income on child income. We find a strong association between the incomes of fathers and children. The causal effect, however, equals at least 1% and at most 51%...
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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 …
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
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Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …
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-workers as most unfair, but underestimate inequality the most exactly within these reference groups. …
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
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In this paper we want to provide an utopian attempt to tackle inequality and to tackle, most specifically, what we … consider the cultural and ethical origin of inequality: paid work. We believe that a globalised world, structured around the … the UK. Our main findings suggest that UII has a positive effect on inequality an almost null effect on poverty and strong …
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …
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