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distribution we move, their presence has steadily increased in all top groups over the past four decades. Top income women are … opposite is true for men. Realized capital gains are more important for top income women but turn out to be of a more … transitory nature than for men. Mobility is generally higher for top income women compared to top income men but the trend since …
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Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … this severely underestimates the actual increase in inequality and, in particular, top income shares during recent decades …. Using micro panel data to average incomes over longer periods and re-rank individuals according to income excluding capital …
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UK, where a 1% growth in employment was achieved at the expense of 1.3% worsening in income inequality. In the light of …
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using …
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(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …
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We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …
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This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...
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