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We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on …, we investigate the effect of a negative income trend (intra-personal decrease), which means a decreasing income compared … to one's recent past. Second, we investigate the effect of a negative income trend relative to the income trend of …
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In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …
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Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is …
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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...
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between foreign work experience and monthly income. Importantly, these outcomes remain consistent irrespective of the time … Venezuelans' human capital yielded returns equivalent to Peruvian human capital, the average income of Venezuelans would witness a …
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We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
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In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income …
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This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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increase with age. Results are robust to using different measures of inequality (income and maternal education). Gaps are …
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In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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