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This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us – for the first time – to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
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marital choices may be undergoing change. We expand the traditional dimension of assortative mating through labor income only …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
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according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the … (MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile … times. However, these worsening conditions have been more pronounced in the 1st income decile and especially the 7th-10th …
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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among children such that it cushions cash income inequality. One major reason for this effect is that public in-kind … economic resources by applying an extended income approach. Combining survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with … administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly …
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