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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146838
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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321340
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?
Merkl, Christian - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139060
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122677
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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122959
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103467
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Where the Streets Have a Name : Income Comparisons in the US
Brodeur, Abel - 2013
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085063
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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?
Blau, Francine D. - 2013
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including parental leave and part-time work entitlements in other OECD countries explains 28-29% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088324