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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280747
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Top earners: Cross-country facts
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039330
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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 … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316895
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Nonlinear household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare
De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2018
inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144204
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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008
In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273965
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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286510
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The Nordic model of economic development: Shocks, reforms and future prospects
Iacono, Roberto - 2017
resource revenues on the labor market and income inequality in Norway compared to the other Nordic countries; the design of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636632
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - 2007
enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321560
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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises when household members are placed in paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784661
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The Fed's real reaction function: monetary policy, inflation, unemployment, inequality and presidential politics
Galbraith, James K.; Giovannoni, Olivier; Russo, Ann J. - 2007
Using a VAR model of the American economy from 1984 to 2003, we find that, contrary to official claims, the Federal Reserve does not target inflation or react to inflation signals." Rather, the Fed reacts to the very real" signal sent by unemployment, in a way that suggests that a baseless fear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273826