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Women in top incomes : evidence from Sweden 1974-2013
Boschini, Anne; Gunnarsson, Kristin; Roine, Jesper - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804134
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Earnings dynamics and inequality during macroeconomic turbulence : Sweden 1991-1999
Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002
studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587543
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Dissecting between plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133921
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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland
Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007 - December 2007 (this revised version)
Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung von Beschäftigungskonten. Anstatt Steuern/Beiträge zu zahlen, die die Arbeitslosenunterstützung finanzieren, zahlen Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten...
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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.
Bayerlein, Michael - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336271
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475841
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Nonparametric structural estimation of labor supply in the presence of censoring
Liang, Che-yuan - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003836618
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Tax reform evaluation using nonparametric methods : Sweden 1980-1991
Blomquist, Nils Sören; Eklöf, Matias; Newey, Whitney K. - 1997
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587861
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Income inequality and risk taking
Schmidt, Ulrich; Neyse, Levent; Aleknonyte, Milda - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532452
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Hourly wage rate and taxable labor income responsiveness to changes in marginal tax rates
Blomquist, Nils Sören (contributor);  … - 2008 - This version: November 19, 2008
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
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