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Optimal labor income taxation : the role of the skill distribution
Miao, Dingquan - 2022
I analyze the role of the distribution of skills in shaping optimal nonlinear income tax schedules. I use theoretical skill distributions as well as empirical skill distributions for 14 OECD countries. I find that a more dispersed log-normal skill distribution implies a more progressive optimal...
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
as well as from reallocation within the market sector that raises productivity in non-routine cognitive jobs. We contrast …
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Are immigrants paid less for education?
Anastassova, Lubomira - 2010
This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...
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Managers and productivity differences
Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015 - Preliminary
use our framework to quantify the importance of (i) lower exogenous productivity differences, and (ii) the size … relative contribution of exogenous productivity versus size-dependent distortions for output and plant-size differences between … the U.S. and Japan. Our results show that exogenous productivity differences account for about 80% of the output gap …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961140
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Relative income change and pro-poor growth
Kośny, Marek; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2015
Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of...
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A note on income inequality in East Europe
Pryor, Frederic L. - 2015 - Draft: August 29, 2013
This short essay examines the proposition that the transition process to a capitalist economic system in Eastern and Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257203