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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933948
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698580
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A global decline in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany
Böing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020
In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290495
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299075
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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331367
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196430
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The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
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Government expenditure in the DINA framework: Allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality
Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022
Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876073
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460699
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: More employment and more inequality
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015
persists for PIT reductions, while the overall effects on inequality and progressivity become lower when payroll taxes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286339