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Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, … - 2015

We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive...

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Understanding the rise in life expectancy inequality

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, … - 2021

the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …

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Will COVID-19 have long-lasting effects on inequality? : evidence from past pandemics

Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2021

This paper provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades on income distribution. The pandemics in our sample, even though much smaller in scale than COVID-19, have led to increases in the Gini coefficient, raised the income share of higher-income deciles, and...

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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … a large growth of net imports from China (such as the UK and the US), than in countries that maintained relatively …

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Financial globalization and inequality : capital flows as a two-edged sword

Eichengreen, Barry; Csonto, Balazs; ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; … - 2021

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Inequality, institutions and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a … significantly smaller share than those with low endowments. This negative effect of inequality on cooperation is exacerbated in high …

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Who will bear the brunt of lockdown policies? : evidence from tele-workability measures across countries

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2020

those at the bottom of the earnings distribution, suggesting that the pandemic could exacerbate inequality. Crosscountry …

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What determines the capital share over the long run of history?

Bengtsson, Erik; Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020

This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...

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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …

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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …

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