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studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …
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This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over various socioeconomic groups such as gender, age, education and sector of …, we compute several measures of wage mobility and explore the link between wage inequality and wage mobility. Further, we …
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We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …
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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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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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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
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inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks …
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We study the nature of firm pay dynamics. To this end, we propose a statistical model that extends the seminal framework by Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999a) to allow for idiosyncratically time-varying firm pay policies. We estimate the model using linked employeremployee data for Sweden from...
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mobility as much as the natives do. This could be interpreted as a lack of access to the full range of occupations, possibly …
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This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
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