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Internal migration and labor market outcomes in Indonesia
Tushar, Bharati,; Yoman, Wina - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601770
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Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth
Blume, Lawrence E.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lukina, Aleksandra - 2020
Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179189
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Identifying income and wealth-poor households in the euro area
Müller, Philip; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
In this paper, we analyse different measures of asset and income poverty using micro-data for 15 euro area countries … definitions of income and wealth poverty affect the number and socio-demographic characteristics of poor households, as well as … their portfolio composition and consumption expenditure. We find that adding wealth to the poverty definition mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373659
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
As the importance of capital is resurging in rich countries, the dynamics of wealth inequality are being increasingly affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in marital choices may be undergoing change. We expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874278
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424292
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Taxation of top incomes and tax avoidance
Di Nola, Alessandro; Kocharkov, Georgi; Scholl, Almuth; … - 2024
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional effects of raising the top marginal income tax rate in the presence of tax avoidance. To this end, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents and occupational choice in which entrepreneurs can avoid taxes in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632306
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Industrialization, returns, inequality
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Stieglitz, Timo - 2023
How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? We turn to the mother of all technological shocks–the Industrial Revolution–and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on wealth shares at the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487319
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Testing Marx
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...
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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879896
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Gender role attitudes and labour market outcomes of women in Australia
Preston, Alison - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540453