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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
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The gender gap in lifetime earnings : the role of parenthood
Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022
To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … the biographical dimension of the gender gap. We observe an average gender lifetime earnings gap of 51.5 percent for birth …
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The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality : a counterfactual analysis for OECD countries
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martin-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2020
This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a...
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What contributes to rising inequality in large cities?
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martín-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2023
This paper aims to analyze the trends in income inequality in large cities within a selected sample of OECD countries. Specifically, we consider a set of determinants that account for changes in the income distribution and estimate their contributions to inequality by developing both a dynamic...
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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon
Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017
This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758398
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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS
Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018
Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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Women in the top of the income distribution : what can we learn from LIS-data?
Bobilev, Roman; Boschini, Anne; Roine, Jesper - 2019
We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized...
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …
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