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implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, andthe existence of market power.... …
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important implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, and the existence of market power …
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Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets(German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of itemnon-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means tocope with this type of measurement...
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We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period1992 to 2001 on the basis of an …
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Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly … spells of workers at the bottom of the distribution of younger cohorts contribute to explain 30 to 40 % of the overall …
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Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
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We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can … affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …
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functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … noughties. In the Great Recession years of tense socioeconomic conditions, looking at income distribution through the lens of …
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The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
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