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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
sets inequalities in lifetime earnings, which would otherwise translate into differences in living standards. Based on a … life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings … that is due to heterogeneous skill endowments. Meanwhile, taxes and transfers insure 45% of lifetime earnings risk. Taxes …
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Working life and human capital investment
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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Selection into entrepreneurship and self-employment
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - 2020
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Labor specialization as a source of market frictions
Molina-Domene, Maria - 2018
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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021
We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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High skilled mobility under uncertainty
Bisset, Jordan; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten - 2023
Previous work suggests a general uncertainty surrounding the migration process acts as a barrier to outmigration. In this paper, we argue that this barrier is exacerbated when relative economic policy uncertainty is higher in the target country and mitigated when relatively higher in the origin...
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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Features and determinants of the firm size distribution : an enpirical analysis with Brazilian data
Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual - 2023
The Pareto distribution has been used to describe firm sizes in many theoretical models for its convenience and empirical validity. We provide estimates of the Pareto parameters across industries and investigate the determinants of the shape of the firm size distribution in Brazil. The Pareto...
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Imperfect signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
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