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Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality : A Cross-Country Analysis

Guvenen, Fatih - 2009

Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the United States than in continental European countries (CEU) since the 1970s. Moreover, this inequality gap has further widened during this period as the US has experienced a large increase in wage inequality, whereas the CEU has seen only...

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An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

Guvenen, Fatih - 2007

In this paper we reassess the evidence on labor income risk. There are two leading views on the nature of the income process in the current literature. The first view, which we call the "Restricted Income Profiles" (RIP) process, holds that individuals are subject to large and very persistent...

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Lifetime Incomes in the United States over Six Decades

Guvenen, Fatih - 2017

Using panel data on individual labor income histories from 1957 to 2013, we document two empirical facts about the distribution of lifetime income in the United States. First, from the cohort that entered the labor market in 1967 to the cohort that entered in 1983, median lifetime income of men...

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Top Income Inequality in the 21st Century : Some Cautionary Notes

Guvenen, Fatih - 2017

We revisit recent empirical evidence about the rise in top income inequality in the United States, drawing attention to four key issues that we believe are critical for an informed discussion about changing inequality since 1980. Our goal is to inform researchers, policy makers, and journalists...

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Firming Up Inequality

Song, Jae - 2015

Earnings inequality in the United States has increased rapidly over the last three decades, but little is known about the role of firms in this trend. For example, how much of the rise in earnings inequality can be attributed to rising dispersion between firms in the average wages they pay, and...

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The Glass Ceiling and The Paper Floor : Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981-2012

Guvenen, Fatih - 2014

We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last 30 years using a 10% sample of individual earnings histories from the Social Security Administration. Despite making large inroads, females still constitute a small proportion of...

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development

Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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