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Differences in Learning and Inequality*
Cappelen, Ådne - 2006
between productivity growth and inequality. If this view is correct it poses some challenges for policies that focus on … of factors other than skilled biased technical change in order to explain the diverse picture of changes in inequality … explanations for the varying experience wrt. wage inequality between OECD-countries in recent decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968227
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Re-estimating the relationship between inequality and growth
Scholl, Nathalie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536734
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Consumption insurance among Blacks and Whites
Naguib, Costanza - 2022
We document relevant racial differences in the degree consumption insurance against shocks: Blacks appear to be less insured. We probe these results by performing a double/debiased lasso estimation of the treatment effects of a health shock, and we find that such effects are both larger and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461495
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The debate on growing inequality: Implications for developing countries and international
Zattler, Jürgen K. - 2015
A body of recent research is pointing to a growing inequality in many countries. The current debate focuses on high … indicates that growing inequality can also be observed in many developing countries, in particular if top income and wealth … economic, political and social implications for the respective countries. In particular, high inequality is linked with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491465
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Life-cycle inequality: The black and white differential
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Gambetti, Luca; Naguib, Costanza - 2023
With 20 years of PSID data, we document persistent racial differentials in life-cycle consumption dynamics. Starting from similar positions in the consumption distribution Blacks end up in lower percentiles than Whites. Education, income, and wealth are three key drivers of these different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374405
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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329887
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329928
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968539
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Labour Supply models
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2015
This paper is published as Chapter 7 of Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling edited by Cathal O''Donoghue, and issued in the series Contributions to Economic Analysis by Emerald Publishing Group. The purpose of the paper is to provide a detailed discussion in relation to the development of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968577
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On the measurement of long-run income inequality. Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B; Modalsli, Jørgen - 2016
In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries … for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968617