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An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food … levels into three components: eligibility, participation, and generosity. This decomposition is then linked to differences in …
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We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status on wealth...
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reform using the microsimulation model EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural … the labour supply elasticities. We show that the child tax credit reform in Austria reduces inequality, lowers the poverty …
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Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...
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resource revenues on the labor market and income inequality in Norway compared to the other Nordic countries; the design of a …
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This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...
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Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...
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This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the … "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income … inequality is, the lower the individual's perception of her social standing, even if objective income inequality and preferences …
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The main aim of this study is to analyse the wage returns of Overeducated workers employed in Trinidad and Tobago. To undertake such a study, data from the Continuous Sample Survey of Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015 is used to estimate an initial OLS and Quantile regression version of...
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