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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
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I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011 … the distribution of job value among workers and find a positive correlation between wage and non-wage value. Inequality in … job value is thus considerably greater than wage inequality, reflected in the standard deviation of job value being more …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
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. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low …
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substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …
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We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive...
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the … wage inequality was roughly 13 percentage points larger than the impact of changes in average wages alone. Similar findings …
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