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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus

McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024 - This version: January 16, 2024

We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...

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Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment

Basteck, Christian; Ehlers, Lars H. - 2021

We study the random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strict preferences. We show that there exists no mechanism which is unanimous, strategy-proof and envy-free. Weakening the first requirement to q-unanimity – i.e., when every agent ranks a different object at the...

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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 … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

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Accounting for the role of tax-benefit changes in shaping income inequality: A new method, with application to income inequality in Finland

Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2021

inequality. This method is a combination of microsimulation based decomposition (Bar gain and Callan, 2010) and a multivariate … importance of different individual character istics in income inequality. With the variance of log of incomes, the decomposition … effects. This method is applied to analyse the evolution of income inequality in Finland from 1993 to 2014. …

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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity

Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019

One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...

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The pattern of home ownership across cohorts and its impact on the net wealth distribution : empirical evidence from Germany and the US

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure … and reduces wealth inequality. We show that some of these effects can be attributed to the difference in ownership shares …

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … substantial role. While education has been another factor contributing to both between-plant and within-plant wage inequality …

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The changing nature of pollution, income and environmental inequality in the United States

Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - 2024

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Current unemployment variance decomposition and consequences of using proxies

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2021

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence

Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...

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