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Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality Over the Life Cycle
Bingley, Paul - 2013
We investigate the relationship between life cycle wages and individual membership of unemployment insurance schemes in Denmark. We separate permanent from transitory wages and characterise them using membership of unemployment insurance funds. We find that unemployment insurance is associated...
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Inequality in Personality Over the Life Cycle
Gensowski, Miriam - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Andrienko, Yuri - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus - 2021
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
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Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia
Murray, Chelsea - 2017
Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0 ….41. We estimate the rank correlation to be 0.27. We show that Australia has greater mobility than the US and this is not …
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Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Fisher-Post, Matthew; Herault, Nicolas; Wilkins, Roger - 2022
We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by … distribution of pre-tax and post-tax national income. Comparing Australia to the US and to France, we also compare our new results …-tax national income is less than inequality of survey-based (post-transfer, disposable) income for Australia. The gender gap in …
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education : Simulation Based Evidence
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2021
cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation model based on the technology of skill formation (Cunha and Heckman …
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Financing Social Security : Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline - 2009
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...
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