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redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and … more permissive of cuts in unemployment insurance generosity and income assistance to the poor. At constant generosity, the … employees do not have the same access to unemployment benefits as permanent employees. …
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Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
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. Institutions that decrease inequality are, however, associated with higher unemployment, and our analysis allows us to quantify the …
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What are the principal sources of posttax-posttransfer inequality in affluent countries? To what extent do inequality of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the posttaxposttransfer income distribution? And what do the answers...
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overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change … the skewness of income distributions: In the globalization model, increasing inequality is accompanied first by a fall and …. -- Inequality ; globalization ; diffusion ; welfare states ; distribution skewness ; statistical methods ; cross-national comparison …
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Combining consensus forecasts of growth of population and real incomes during 2014-35 with household income surveys for more than a hundred countries accounting for the bulk of the world economy, we project the income distribution in 2035 across all individuals in the world. We find that the...
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which globalization should influence the personal distribution of market and disposable incomes as well as redistribution. I … employ panel data covering 28 OECD countries between 1960 and 2010 to analyze the impact of globalization on a set of labor … industrialized countries. Rather, the globalization-induced rise in income dispersion through greater factor price differences is …
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
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