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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth : Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2012
-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle …
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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
division of land led to a more equal distribution of land; other potential drivers of growth are smooth at the boundary and …What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical … right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution. Higher top incomes and top wealth in equal division areas coincide …
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The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity andUncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. Itis silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in thecomponents of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greateruncertainty faced by agents...
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US InequalityTrends with Current Population Survey Data:A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation oflevels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistencyproblems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio ofthe 90th and 10th percentiles...
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
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Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time
Candelon, Bertrand - 2010
This paper proposes an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economy with an implicit market for productive time. In this economy, agents have limited productive time and can choose to produce in autarky, buy productive time from helpers to increase own production or, sell their...
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Sorting on Skills and Preferences : Tinbergen Meets Sattinger
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010
-1 to 1 depending on the parameters of the model, i.e. preference, technology and the distribution of both sets of …
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Can Money Change Who We are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Nybom, Martin - 2011
Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter periods causes a so-called life-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes....
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