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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309510
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138373
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411271
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755549
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758957
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278946
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310955
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American exceptionalism in a new light : a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
Jäntti, Markus (contributor) - 2006
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332255
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Measuring inequality using censored data : a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810324