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Public sector pay and corruption : measuring bribery from micro data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Income tax flattening : does it help to reduce the shadow economy?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...

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Does labor supply respond to a flat tax? : evidence from the Russian tax reform

Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy

Terrell, Katherine D.; Švejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …

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Trends in earnings inequality and earnings instability among US couples : how important is assortative matching?

Hryshko, Dmytro; Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - 2014

We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period … (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Relative to male earnings inequality, the inequality of couples' earnings … role in dampening the rise in inequality and year-to-year variation in resources at the family level, we find that marital …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

evidence of any income-based "trajectory inequality" in either cohort, after conditioning on abilities. Among all graduation …

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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...

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Intergenerational earnings persistence and economic inequality in the long-run : evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1975

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018

-sectional inequality rather than long-term changes in the degree of intergenerational persistence. …

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Between firm changes in earnings inequality : the dominant role of industry effects

Haltiwanger, John C.; Spletzer, James - 2020

We find that most of the rising between firm earnings inequality that dominates the overall increase in inequality in …

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