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value of one's own home (home equity) is the largest financial reserve in a household's wealth portfolio, it is important to …
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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...
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household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …
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Does uncertainty of labor earning over the life-time increase income inequality? - This paper finds that there is a … direct positive relationship between life-time uncertainty and income inequality. Earlier studies single out the effect of … their rapid economic growth, inequality has been decreased in those countries. The degree of earning uncertainty can be …
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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints …
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research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …
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As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...
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social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship …
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The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …
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