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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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Eugenics of inequality : UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974 - 2010

Cooke, Lynn P. - 2014

unconditional quantile partial effects of children along UK and US men's earnings distributions. In the 1970s, most UK and US … fathers enjoyed a modest premium regardless of their relative earnings, which decreased as number of children increased. This … bonus was not attributable to household specialization in paid work, as once controlling for partnership, wives' earnings …

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Anatomy of income inequality in the United States : 1979-2013

Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017

This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There are two ways in which this paper contributes to the literature. First, I analyze how much of the existing inequality in the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened...

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Unemployment versus inactivity : an analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century

Bičáková, Alena (contributor) - 2005

This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the …

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

higher than corresponding micro elasticities. -- labour supply ; earnings ; taxation ; cross-country comparisons …

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Vintage effects in human capital : Europe versus the United States

Inklaar, Robert; Papakonstantinou, Marianna - 2017

The standard assumption in growth accounting is that an hour worked by a worker of given type delivers a constant quantity of labor services over time. This assumption may be violated due to vintage effects, which were shown to be important in the United States since the early 1980s, leading to...

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Poverty and place in North America : overview

Bane, Mary Jo (contributor); Zenteno, René M. (contributor) - 2005

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Poverty and inequality : Greece and Mediterranean Europe in comparative perspective

Munzi, Teresa (contributor); … - 2005

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Exactly how has income inequality changed? : Patterns of distributional change in core societies

Alderson, Arthur S. (contributor); … - 2005

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Families, time and money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Burton, Peter S.; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2009

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that both time and money are important inputs to the well-being of parents and children. We present...

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