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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021474
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Ginis in General Equilibrium : Trade, Technology and Southern Inequality
Chun Zhu, Susan; Trefler, Daniel - 2021
Within developing and newly industrialized countries, rising wage inequality is both common and highly correlated with export growth. This is incompatible with the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, but suggestive of a role for technological catch-up. We develop this insight using a model that features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249349
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520
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Self-Selection of Emigrants : Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
Borjas, George J. - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013506
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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States : A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
Mitnik, Pablo A.; Helsø, Anne-Line; Bryant, Victoria - 2022
We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United … relative to Denmark rather than just lower-bound estimates of IOp in the two countries. There are five main results. First … income is high in the United States and far from negligible in Denmark: before taxes and transfers, the lower-bound Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093600
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Lessons from Denmark About Inequality and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2022
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high ….S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family influence on important child outcomes in Denmark is about as strong as it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264611
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117390
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893143
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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137608
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Income Inequality, Tax Base and Sovereign Spreads
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104730