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The end of destitution
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...
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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969885
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General human capital and employment adjustment in the great depression: apprentices and journeymen in UK engineering
Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001766925
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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350843
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346576
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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 gender wage gap in four countries
Daly, Anne E.; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006
comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253459
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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 …
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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442576
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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...
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