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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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Work/Family arrangements across the OECD : incorporating the female-breadwinner model

Kowalewska, Helen; Vitali, Agnese - 2019

are typically low-educated and have significantly lower average earnings than pure male breadwinners. The second type is …

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The persistence of the gender earnings gap : cohort trends and the role of education in twelve countries

Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Gornick, Janet C.; … - 2018

gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … have caught up and often even outperform men, substantial gender differences in earnings persist in all countries. These … results are consistent with the composition of the top earnings decile. Using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods, we …

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Globalization and income inequality : the role of transmission mechanisms

Hennighausen, Tanja - 2014

The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially during the recent decades. At the same time, most of these countries experienced a rise in income dispersion. Against this background, the paper analyzes empirically whether the...

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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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Who can (still) afford to retire early? : cross-country comparison of incomes of senior workers and young retirees using LIS data for 2007 & 2010

Petrovici, Carmen D.; Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

The aim of this paper is to compare the economic situation of young retirees with their peers who decided to continue their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) for four countries (Greece, Spain, the UK and...

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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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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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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2019 - This version: January 2019

We examine whether economic downturns reshape the distribution of population income giving rise to a "middle-class squeeze." We test this hypothesis using alternative definitions of middle-class, such as income-based measures from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and perceived measures from...

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"Left behind?"- financialization and income inequality between the affluent, middle class, and the poor

Hyde, Allen - 2018

There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by concentrating income among the affluent and rich. There is less empirical research examining who is losing out to the affluent. This paper fills this gap by examining how three...

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