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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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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives and household welfare?

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007 - This version: 05/09/2007

We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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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...

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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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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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Earnings inequality in Germany : a decomposition-analysis

Stein, Ulrike - 2017

earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to …. Using the decomposition of the Theil1-index we demonstrate that the increase in earnings inequality is primarily the result … of diverging average earnings of the various groups in the labour market (between-group inequality) and to some extent …

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