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Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution

Dolls, Mathias - 2018

This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative developments. Theory predicts that population ageing should...

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Gender Inequality During the Covid-19 Pandemic : Income, Expenditure, Savings, and Job Loss

Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2021

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We...

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lidia - 2009

as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result, i) native females with high earnings potential were able to …

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Having it All, for All : Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019

We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the...

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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska‐Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...

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The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - 2021

This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wage inequality during the 1980s. Using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey, we find this increase to be...

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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...

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Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe

Manduca, Robert - 2020

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent...

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Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution

Webber, Douglas A. - 2013

elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also contrast the dynamic model method employed by this paper with the more … traditional use of concentration ratios to measure a firm's labor market power. Finally, I construct a counterfactual earnings … distribution which allows the effects of firm market power to vary across the earnings distribution …

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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality : Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2013

This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007,...

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