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Annuelles de Données Sociales” data set (DADS), we show that inequality increases with mobility, and that mobility evolves with …. One based on Jolivet, Postel-Vinay and Robin (2006) allows us to link inequality and mobility through equilibrium changes …In this paper we highlight the link existing between economic growth and inequality. Using the FH-DADS panel data set …
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Using panel data from Argentina during the 1990’s, this paper concludes that, in Argentina, income ‘mobiles’ did change over time. Among the household variables with a structural relation with income dynamics, we find university education, protecting from income declines though not...
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This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence … the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality boosts up the rise of …
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In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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The paper presents an approach which thoroughly assesses the role of early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions in explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the...
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In this work we explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. First, we investigate which properties of firm’s size distributions and growth dynamics are robust under disaggregation. Second, at a...
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2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … in the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The …-year period to 0.65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a …
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2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … in the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The …-year period to 0.65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a …
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The relation between mobility and earnings is investigated for the Russian factors estimated for 1998. Mobility does …
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inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what …One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to …
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