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We estimate wage differentials between foreign- and native-born workers across developed and developing economies. We leverage internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that...
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The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and recipient units with the … income categories and units found in data produced by tax authorities. Our analyses, based on a standardized definition of … fiscal income, allow us to locate, for top-income groups, the sources of discrepancy. We find, using the cases of the United …
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I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...
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This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual level data for 14 countries. I...
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Combining consensus forecasts of growth of population and real incomes during 2014-35 with household income surveys for … more than a hundred countries accounting for the bulk of the world economy, we project the income distribution in 2035 …
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This paper investigated the link between inflation and the top decile income share after the global financial crisis …. The analysis was done on a sample of 42 countries. We found that higher inflation has reduced the income going to the top … decile. The main explanation is that inflation has eroded their labour income, differently from the low-income individuals …
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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … outcome of this process entails relevant information about the evolution of the income distribution. We exploit the LIS micro … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …
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This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty …
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, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a … reduction of the policies in support of low income individuals. …
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The reformulation of the median voter hypothesis and its testing proposed in Milanovic (2000) has been criticized from four different perspectives. The critiques are discussed and assessed.
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