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studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …
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Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974-2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has steadily...
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we conduct a decomposition analysis … inequality. In the case of collective bargaining, both the decline in collective bargaining coverage and the increase in wage …
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developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data … of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual …
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A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors … introduce the concept of spatial inequality, which describes the regional inequality within countries, and construct a measure … of public goods scarcity. I argue that the spatial inequality induced feeling of being left behind is positively …
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This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed nonparametric labor supply function to account for the behavorial responses of the taxed individuals. We decompose the tax reform to study how the separate components influence hours of...
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This paper extends the nonparametric method to estimate labor supply developed by Blomquist and Newey (2002) to handle cases in which there are individuals who do not work. The method is then applied to married women in Sweden from 1973 to 1999. For 1999, I find an aggregate uncompensated wage...
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their peers. The present paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic analysis of income inequality and risk … taking. We perform a real effort field experiment where inequality is introduced to different wage rates. After the effort … the dominant impact of inequality on risk taking is what can be termed a social house money effect: high-wage individuals …
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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