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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Dalgic, Basak; Guven, Aytekin - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing … of the highest among the European Union (EU) countries. The wage mobility in Turkey is lower than what is observed in the …

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Gelir hareketliliği eşitsizlikleri azaltabilir mi? Türkiye örneği

Güven, Aytekin; Dalgıç, Başak; Tansel, Aysit - 2014

mobility together for a developing country Turkey which is one of the countries having most unequal income distributions. The …

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002

Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s; workers with low relative earnings in the beginning of the...

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On the evaluation of economic mobility

Gottschalk, Peter; Spolaore, Enrico - 2001

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of reversal and origin independence as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show how that evaluation depends on aversion to multi-period inequality, aversion to inter-temporal fluctuations, and aversion to future risk. We...

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Distributional impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: a microsimulation approach

Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong - 2009

Over the last two decades, those at the bottom of the income scale have seen their incomes stagnate, while those at the top have seen theirs skyrocket. Without intervention, the recession that began in December 2007 was likely to exacerbate this trend. Will the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

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Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries

Cappelli, Federica - 2024

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical and empirical levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of changes in the full spectre of income distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To...

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Perceptions of Inequality

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2017

Although people's perception of (income or wealth) inequality has important e_ects on their decisions as economic agents or voters, little is known about how perceptions relate to measured inequality. We present a novel formal framework that is based on the assumption that people typically do...

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Firm pay dynamics

Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian; Sauermann, Jan - 2021

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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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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