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We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
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executive pay are associated with objective measures of inequality and redistribution, and that individuals' perceptions and …
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
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This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to2006. After decomposing the …
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This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
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This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect onsubjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types ofbenchmarks...
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This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...
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This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … same inequality perceptions and distributional norms …
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