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Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality
Bick, Alexander; Blandin, Adam; Rogerson, Richard Donald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
an important source of inequality in lifetime earnings. To establish this we develop and calibrate a rich heterogeneous … calibrated model implies that almost 20 percent of the variance in lifetime earnings is accounted for by differences in lifetime … lifetime earnings via two channels: a direct channel (more hours spent in production at given productivity) and a human capital …
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Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
Smith, Matthew - 2019
How important is human capital at the top of the U.S. income distribution? A primary source of top income is private "pass-through" business profit, which can include entrepreneurial labor income for tax reasons. This paper asks whether top pass-through profit mostly reflects human capital,...
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The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality : a counterfactual analysis for OECD countries
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martin-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2020
This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a...
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What contributes to rising inequality in large cities?
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martín-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2023
This paper aims to analyze the trends in income inequality in large cities within a selected sample of OECD countries. Specifically, we consider a set of determinants that account for changes in the income distribution and estimate their contributions to inequality by developing both a dynamic...
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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...
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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS
Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018
Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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Women in the top of the income distribution : what can we learn from LIS-data?
Bobilev, Roman; Boschini, Anne; Roine, Jesper - 2019
We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107544
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What is the contribution of intra-household inequality to overall income inequality? : evidence from global data, 1973-2013
Malghan, Deepak; Swaminathan, Hema - 2016
Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four...
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Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares : Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2016
in place. After a tax reform in 2005 that created strong incentives to retain earnings within businesses, the increase … was massive: accounting for earnings retained in the corporate sector leads to more than doubling of the share of income … of top 0.1% in some years. Furthermore, adjusting for retained earnings stabilizes the composition of the top income …
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Higher education expansion & labour income inequality in high-income countries : a gender-specific perspective
Sauer, Petra; Van Kerm, Philippe; Checchi, Daniele - 2022
build on prior studies that have ignored potentially differential effects by factoring in what it means for earnings … educational groups significantly contribute to magnify the impact of educational expansion on earnings distributions across …
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