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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
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Immigrant overeducation across two generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing … consideration and conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse U-shaped. In other words …
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Inequality and top incomes
Bartels, Charlotte; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021
This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described. Further, new developments that...
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxesand benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
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The Arab inequality puzzle : the role of income sources in Egypt and Tunisia
Krafft, Caroline; Davis, Elizabeth E. - 2019
Egypt and Tunisia are perceived to have high levels of inequality, yet based on standard measures, inequality in these two countries is not unusually high. In this study we explore a new dimension of inequality in Egypt and Tunisia by using a more complete measure of income and decomposing...
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Inequality and welfare dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2019
inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short … growth. However, a similar transition from the private sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income …
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The effect of self-employment on income inequality
Schneck, Stefan - 2018
It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in self-employment rates. With representative German data...
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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020
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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Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Phuong Minh Le - 2022
The public sector plays a large role in many developing economies, but its effect on earnings inequality dynamics has not been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate the earnings inequality trends and their determinants in the decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on...
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