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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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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …
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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …
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In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …
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We use new, high-quality UK panel data to document the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at an individual level, from April 2020 to March 2021. We focus on where and to what extent pre-existing labour market and financial inequalities have been exacerbated. Our story is more nuanced than...
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inequality from 2005 to 2016 at the monthly frequency. We investigate the dynamic relationship between monetary policy and the … evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …
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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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heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
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inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …
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The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …
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