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This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … higher level of wage inequality and a lower level of wage mobility than men in both parts of the country throughout the …
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, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is …
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determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education …
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This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the …
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This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where …, inequality and mobility. To this end, we employ an axiomatic approach to justify the introduction of a generalized family of rank …-dependent measures of inequality, where the distributional weights, as opposed to the Mehran-Yaari family, depend on income shares as …
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We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational...
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We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess relative inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic improvements of such outcomes at different points of the initial...
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Consider an economy populated by males and females, both rich and poor. The society has to choose one of the following marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the conditions under which each of these equilibria...
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Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …
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what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and …
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