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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052312
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Household earnings in Putin's Russia : distributional changes across socioeconomic groups, 2000-2016
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2022
Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455206
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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation
Magdalou, Brice (contributor); Moyes, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
We provide a characterization of the generalised satisfaction - in our terminology nondeprivation - quasi-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800432
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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive impacts of fiscal instruments in a 2014 Mexican household budget survey (ENIGH) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re-estimate the redistributive impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029158
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In search of a paradox of redistribution analysis of fiscal redistribution in high-income countries
Coady, David P. - 2023
The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …
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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023
Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...
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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis
Luebker, Malte - 2019
in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support … than earnings) is positively associated with fiscal redistribution. In sum, revisiting an influential contribution to the … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009239
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Misperceptions of income distributions : cross-country evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2017
Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a … misperceptions slightly shifts the demand towards less redistribution in Germany and Russia which appears to be driven by respondents … redistribution across countries. The treatment also alters trust levels in government and beliefs about the importance of luck but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687329
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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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