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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239013
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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517739
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Skill disparities and unequal family outcomes
Lundberg, Shelly - 2014
The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...
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The evolution of the US family income-schooling relationship and educational selectivity
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2020
We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227223
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Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity
Bussolo, Maurizio; Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2020
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the four largest European economies (France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy). Relative IOp represents an important portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193223
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The economic impact of heritable physical traits : hot parents, rich kid?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - 2024
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...
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Marital sorting, household inequality and selection
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2023
Using CPS data for 1976 to 2022 we explore how wage inequality has evolved for married couples with both spouses working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns have changed over this period. To determine the factors...
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On the origins of socio-economic inequalities : evidence from twin families
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We propose a twin family model linking twins with their spouses and children to quantify the relative importance of genetic and environmental factors in explaining the variance of socio-economic outcomes. Using data from the Danish Twins Registry and population registers, we test and relax the...
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Does financial deregulation boost top incomes? : evidence from the Big Bang
Tanndal, Julia; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450671
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
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