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Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines

Sattinger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

A model linking macroeconomic phenomena and income distribution in balanced growth equilibria is developed as a variant …

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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; Peñalosa, Cecilia García - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine what determines differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the … wage inequality on the US distribution of personal incomes. …

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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

controlling for imputation status, indicate that individuals with imputed incomes, ceteris paribus, earn significantly above …

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Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

determine which persons are affected by a given policy, where they come from in the ex-ante outcome distribution and what their …

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Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?

Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, we investigate whether the Dutch skill-premium will rise in the next decades. To answer this...

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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … substantial drop of median income and a remarkable income growth at the top 0.1% of the income distribution. The increase of …

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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