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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis
Luebker, Malte - 2019
Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...
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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon
Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017
This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...
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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS
Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018
Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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Financialization & top incomes in emerging economies : a comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium in the BRIC
Roberts, Anthony J.; Casey, Emma; Hodges, Baylee - 2023
Prior studies on emerging economies contend increasing returns to human capital has contributed to the growth of wage inequality over the last few decades. However, this explanation fails to account for an important dynamic of contemporary wage inequality: the growth of top labor incomes....
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Sources of equality and inequality: wages, jobs, households and redistribution
Kenworthy, Lane (contributor) - 2008
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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De-routinization of jobs and polarization of earnings : evidence from 35 countries
Longmuir, Maximilian; Schröder, Carsten; Targa, Matteo - 2020
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 due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC)...
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality : education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types of public policies. We argue that public...
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Immigration in the EU : an empirical analysis of the impact of immigration on the German labor market
DeVeaux, Frederick - 2014
immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent … and decrease wages of incumbent foreigners by about 9 percent. Across the different model specifications the negative …
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Labour market dualism and the heterogeneous wage gap for temporary employment : a multilevel study across 30 countries
Fauser, Sophia; Gebel, Michael - 2023
This study investigates the hourly wage gap between 25-55 year old temporary and permanent employees across 30 countries worldwide based on Luxembourg Income Study data from 2000-2019 supplemented by other survey data. Two-stage multilevel regressions reveal wage disadvantages for temporary...
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