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We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
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What accounts for differences in the extent of nationalist sentiments across countries and over time? One prominent argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their citizens from recognizing economic inequality and...
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Cross-national research on the causes and consequences of income inequality has been hindered by the limitations of existing inequality datasets: greater coverage across countries and over time is available from these sources only at the cost of significantly reduced comparability across...
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The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution …, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations … relevance is the implications of job polarization and technological change for earnings distributions. In this paper, we put the …
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