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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
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Social norms and minimum wages
Austen, Siobhan - 1997
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Debt, inflation and the shape of the global pandemic recovery
Zhou, Yixiao; Tyers, Rodney; Lenzo, Damian - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540388
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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996
The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's,...
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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? : a behavioral microsimulation decomposition
Jessen, Robin - 2016
I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate changes, and population changes while considering labor supply reactions. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I apply this method to decompose the increase in income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568532
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Estimating poverty and inequality indicators using interval censored income data from the German microcensus
Walter, Paul; Weimer, Katja - 2018
Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … income variable is measured on a metric scale. However, estimation is not possible, using standard formulas, when the income … confidentiality constraints or in order to decrease item non-response. To enable the estimation of statistical indicators in these …
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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018
Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
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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Product market competition, returns to skill and wage inequality
Guadalupe, Maria (contributor) - 2005
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A model of income and income inequality in the process of growth
Montes, Manuel F. - 1985
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