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lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …
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countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of differences in social mobility and …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990. Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between … ; household structure ; SOEP ; Germany …
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic variables are closer to expert forecasts and less dispersed than households', consistent with higher...
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
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model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer …
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