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Do the Rich Vote Conservative Because They Are Rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 1 (2010) 2

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this seemingly fits the data well in most countries, I show that the relationship breaks down when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to...

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Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Marchionni, Mariana; Arias, Omar - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 1, pp. 3-28

This article uses a unique panel data set of rural El Salvador to investigate the main sources of persistence and variability in incomes. Our econometric framework validly reduces a general panel model to a dynamic linear model with a covariance structure that can be estimated efficiently with...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

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The Role of European Welfare States in Explaining Resources Deprivation

Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation …

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Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2006

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652214

Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as their...

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Wage Dips and Drops around First Birth

Kunze, Astrid; Ejrnaes, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use a rich longitudinal data set for West Germany to disentangle the wage effects for female workers around first birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women's real wages shortly before giving birth and a drop of 10 to 20 percent after finishing maternity leave and returning to the...

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Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of Labor Earnings

Browning, Martin; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 219-245

In this article, we survey the literature on individual earnings dynamics with a particular focus on allowing for pervasive heterogeneity across individuals. We structure the discussion around ARMA processes with nonlinear trends for each individual. We show that allowing for pervasive and...

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