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The implicit costs and benefits of family friendly work practices
Heywood, John S. (contributor);  … - 2005
"This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in which workers provided with such practices face an implicit reduction in their earnings. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002772733
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The benefits of separating early retirees from the unemployed : simulation results for Belgian wage earners
Desmet, Raphae͏̈l (contributor);  … - 2005
budgetary cost of a focused unemployment system are moderate, and that returning the unemployment insurance to its primary role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002774273
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Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002-2018
Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry - 2021
This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more … on income inequality among working-age persons. Between the years of study, IOp in China declined, especially between … had increased. We find that IOp is larger among those born in rural than urban China. Furthermore, IOP's contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550223
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Living standards and economic vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415594
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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472036
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. After controlling for demographic attributes, health, unemployment status, household size, agricultural hukou (household … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772
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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non-rich'), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521081
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521090
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Reevaluating distributional consequences of the transition to market economy in Poland : new results from combined household survey and tax return data
Brzezinski, Michal; Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130457
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647672