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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
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by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …
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and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much …
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across the distribution. Furthermore, there are no clear signs that this situation should change in the coming decades. …
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at the lower end of the wage distribution it increased at the top end of wage distribution. Education contributed to …This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating … Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined …
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, 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 earnings distribution becomes thicker with age, and (3) the growth …
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This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …
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inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks … generate enough concentration at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. …
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Mixed-aged classes (MA-classes) are a common phenomenon around the world. In Sweden, these types of classes increased rapidly during the 1980:s and 1990:s. But the scientific evidence of the benefits of MA-classes is not convincing. In this paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class...
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empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
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