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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

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Improving employment and earnings in 21st century labor markets : an introduction

Groshen, Erica L.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2019

What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...

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Employment patterns of husbands and wives and family income distribution in Italy (1977-1998)

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia - 2002

The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men's employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …

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Taxes and employment subsidies in optimal redistribution programs

Beaudry, Paul; Blackorby, Charles; Szalay, Dezső - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 216-242

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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey : the importance of controlling for censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...

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Real wage inequality

Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2008

A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...

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Income inequality and crime in the United States

Choe, Jongmook - In: Economics letters 101 (2008) 1, pp. 31-33

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Intergenerational persistence of earnings : the role of early and college education

Restuccia, Diego; Urrutia, Carlos - In: The American economic review 94 (2004) 5, pp. 1354-1378

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Time to eat : household production under increasing income inequality

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006

Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...

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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...

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