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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"
Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024
Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving...
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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 … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results …
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021
poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …
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Predicting poverty with missing incomes
Verme, Paolo - 2023
Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability analyses. Based on the models used by this literature, this...
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Sexual orientation and earnings : a meta-analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The meta-analysis indicates that gay men earned less than...
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The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment : breaking the link
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2017
In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This tight link is at odds with the empirical literature. We...
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Consumer loan response to permanent labor income shocks : evidence from a major minimum wage increase
Güney, Ethem; Hacihasanoglu, Yavuz Selim; Tumen, Semih - 2017
We investigate the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase, which became effective in January 2016, on consumer loans in Turkey. Using bank-level data and designing an original identification strategy, we ask whether the loans provided by banks with a historically high share of low-wage...
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Curtailment of economic activity and labor inequalities
Florio, Erminia; Kharazi, Aicha - 2022
The worrying combination of the labor market tightness and the wage inflation in the US since the pandemic raises a question on how the business closure orders affected the fragile segments of the labor force and contributed to mounting inflationary wage pressure. We develop a macroeconomic...
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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance : analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
trade-off between two effects of a shock for a household: loss of income and increase in the need of labor services. We show …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration … that migration increases when the former effect of a shock dominates, it reduces when the latter effect dominates. We …
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