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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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Capitalist systems and income inequality

Ranaldi, Marco; Milanović, Branko - 2020

-personal inequality. We speculate on the emergence of homoploutic societies where income composition may be the same for all, but Gini …

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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States

Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016

The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484327

Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels

Lilla, Marco - 2016

The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several countries in the 2000s, by applying pseudo-panel methodology to microdata from the LIS database. Hence, different paths in term of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining...

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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?

Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high...

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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … income has a strong equalizing impact of 3.3-4.5 points of the Gini further accentuated under the top-income corrections. The … equalizing impacts of 4.7-5.7, 1.6-1.9, and 1.2-2.2 points of the Gini, respectively. Indirect taxes and subsidies are weakly …

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The inequality we want : how much is too much?

Krozer, Alice - 2017

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable...

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Different faces of inequality across Asia : decomposition of income gaps across demographic groups

Hlasny, Vladimir - 2017

Economic inequality across Asia has been growing, but dimensions of this inequality and their development are unclear. This paper evaluates income inequality using household surveys from China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. These countries may be viewed as jointly representative of...

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The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality : a counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martin-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2020

This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a...

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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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