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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses

Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003

The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension funds wealth. We argue that this problem can best be resolved by the introduction of generational...

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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses

Teulings, Coen N.; Vries, Casper G. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Sweden´s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in theRoller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and aHalf of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …

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Is Education the Panacea for EconomicDeprivation of Muslims? Evidence fromWage Earners in India, 1987-2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials amongreligious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligioussocieties like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examiningthe differences in the...

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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

income based on income of parents... …

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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:Testing the Divergence of Earnings and theSymmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growthperiods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We askwhether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experiencethe largest earnings gains or the...

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Earnings Over the Lifecycle:The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincers seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...

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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with aSingle Question?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But manysurveys collect data with just … a single question covering all forms of income. This raisesissues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals … are asked about the householdtotal rather than own income alone. Data are typically banded, implying a loss of information …

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Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Zhang, Yudan - 2022

Household income per capita among the rural Yi, Manchurian ethnic minority groups and the Han majority is studied using … data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi … and Han populations narrowed, while the average income among the Manchurian population remained relatively similar to that …

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Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2022

-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by … main predictor of joblessness. We find significant rural/urban, age, and education gradients in household level income loss …. Households with income from non-farm enterprises were most likely to report income loss, in the short run as well as the longer …

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