empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and …

We argue that rising supply of experience not only reduces experienced workers' relative wages but also their relative … structures a decade earlier. We find that aging substantially reduces experienced workers' relative wages and employment rates … might be more severe than previously recognized, as it reaches beyond wages. …

structure and the positions of workers within it: (a) workers' own absolute wages, (b) workers' conditional internal reference … wages within firms, (c) the conditional wage dispersion in firms, and (d) workers' conditional external reference wages … considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are important, whereas the evidence for …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

the value of non-pecuniary rewards, in 90 different occupations. Labour-market inequality is underestimated: the … labour market are larger than those in earnings alone, and the full returns to education on the labour market are …

multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of … joint distributions of income and net wealth confirms that France demonstrates a more homogenous distribution of richness …This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …

Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …