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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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The future of worldwide income distribution
Hellebrandt, Tomáš; Mauro, Paolo - 2015
Combining consensus forecasts of growth of population and real incomes during 2014-35 with household income surveys for … 2013, and we project that it will decline further to 61 in 2035, largely owing to rapid economic growth in the emerging … projected GDP growth. …
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Misperceptions of income distributions : cross-country evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2017
This paper investigates whether the individual misperception of income distributions helps explain why, opposite to Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a representative survey experiment in Brazil, France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687329
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Rising mean incomes for whom?
Krause, Melanie; Shao, Liang Frank - 2018
that MPS has risen in 13 out of 16 high- and middle-income countries in the last decades, indicating that growth has mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928598
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Europe's long-term growth prospects : with and without structural reforms
McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl - 2015
Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects …. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid … declining rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth and weaker capital accumulation as areas for concern in an European …
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The long-term effects of financial aid and career education : evidence from a randomized experiment
Renée, Laëtitia - 2022
I study the effects of the Future to Discover Project, a randomized experiment in which Canadian high school students were either invited to participate in career planning workshops or were made eligible for an $8,000 college grant. By matching the experimental data to post-secondary institution...
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Inflation and the rich after the global financial crisis
Jovanovic, Branimir - 2014
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...
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly...
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Market and disposable top income shares adjusted by national accounts data
Goda, Thomas; Sanchez, Santiago - 2017
This paper uses national accounts data to adjust market and disposable Top 10% and Top 1% household survey income shares for 39 developed and developing countries that are part of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). An additional novelty of this study is the distinction between labor and capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714403
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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea
Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020
This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two (primarily) origin countries (Jordan and Iraq). Using LIS-ERF...
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