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Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017

We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...

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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Kuhn, Andreas - 2012

This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the...

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...

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Nonlinear household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare

De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2018

Study of Income Dynamics) data. We study the implications of two processes for household, post-tax earnings in a standard …

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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005

Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - 2011

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household's economic well-being was lower in …

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A comparison of inequality and living standards in Canada and the United States using an expanded measure of economic well-being

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas; … - 2012

We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to … represents the first international comparison based on LIMEW, which differs from the standard measure of gross money income (MI …) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …

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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia

Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012

The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching techniques and apply the framework of stochastic dominance to...

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Does competition justify inequality?

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...

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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others

Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between …

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Long-term trends in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), United States, 1959- 2004

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas - 2009

U.S. Census Bureau measure of gross money income (MI) in that it includes taxes, noncash transfers, public consumption …, income from wealth, and household production. We analyze trends in LIMEW from 1959 to 2004, and find that median LIMEW grew … continued to narrow according to MI. The difference in time trends can be traced mainly to the rising income from wealth of …

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