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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns

Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 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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Earnings inequality and risk over two decades of economic development in Lithuania

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Tarasonis, Linas - 2025

Using Social Security records between 2000 and 2020, we provide a comprehensive analysis of labor earnings inequality and its dynamics over the course of Lithuania’s economic development. Since 2000, there has been a substantial decline in earnings inequality, largely driven by the rapid...

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The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which...

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Globalization, gender, and the family

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2019

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …−if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock−low fertility beyond the early forties−is central to this gender …

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Age-specific entrepreneurship and PAYG public pensions in Germany

Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - 2020

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...

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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2010

the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …

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Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting

Bastani, Spencer; Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - 2022

We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...

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Firm training

Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations

Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021

government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2007

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