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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....
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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty
Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damián; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...
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Educational Inequality*
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463591
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Earnings Inequality in Germany
Abraham, Katharine G. - 1993
these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings … within either education or age groups. Germany wage setting institutions tend to limit earnings differentials across groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474401
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Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Juhn, Chinhui - 1996
Using data from the March CPS and the 1960 Census, this paper describes earnings and employment changes for married couples in different types of households stratified by the husband's hourly wage. While the declines in male employment and earnings have been greatest for low wage men, employment...
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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Blundell, Richard - 2012
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings...
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The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners : Evidence from Star Scientists
Moretti, Enrico - 2015
Using data on the universe of U.S. patents filed between 1976 and 2010, we quantify how sensitive is migration by star scientist to changes in personal and business tax differentials across states. We uncover large, stable, and precisely estimated effects of personal and corporate taxes on star...
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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2017
This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...
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Ethnic Inequality
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2012
This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...
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