In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over … time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive … outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We use Austrian data from tax authorities to find out how population …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment … (Swiss, Western European, others). Willingness to pay for redistribution increases with income and education, contradicting …

at the lower and upper tails of the income distribution. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent …

This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …. The methods developed here have wider applicability to estimation of nonparametric regression and average derivatives …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … definition of the tax unit within the personal income tax and (ii) the parental leave benefit scheme. As our analysis shows …

autoregression, we derive return and volatility spillover indices over the rolling sub-sample windows. We show that there is … substantial difference between the behavior of the East Asian return and volatility spillover indices over time. While the return … spillover index reveals increased integration among the East Asian equity markets, the volatility spillover index experiences …