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Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
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Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e.g. capital gains, dividends, etc.) disproportionately...
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In recent years, important and headline-grabbing findings have emerged from research using individual income tax data for statistical purposes. Demand for these microdata, accessible under the tax administration authority of the Internal Revenue Code and through the IRS Statistics of Income...
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We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark …
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We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched …
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We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a …
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population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative …
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disorder (BD). Individual-level registry data from Denmark show that these disorders carry large earnings penalties, ranging …
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implication that wealth should decline over time. The risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenditures is negligible in Denmark … explanations are not plausible for Denmark (and therefore also questionable for the U.S.). Our analysis instead attempts to explain …
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This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce … by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are … choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to …
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