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Who did safety nets catch during the Great Recession and how? A comparison of eleven OECD countries
Baird, Katherine - 2014
occurred along the income distribution, and reversed increases in inequality. A notable shortcoming across many countries was …
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Inflation and the rich after the global financial crisis
Jovanovic, Branimir - 2014
episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …
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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon
Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017
This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060306
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060319
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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty
Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017
This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725498
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Diverging destinies in international perspective: Education, single motherhood, and child poverty
Härkönen, Juho - 2017
social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
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