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The correlation of spouses' permanent and transitory earnings and family earnings inequality in Canada
Ostrovsky, Yuri - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 756-768
I develop a very flexible error-component model of family earnings dynamics to examine recent Canadian trends in the variance of family earnings and its components using the ‘permanent-transitory’ analytical framework. In contrast to most studies of family earnings inequality, the main focus...
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A new semiparametric approach to analysing conditional income distributions
Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2014
of conditional income distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions …
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A New Semiparametric Approach to Analysing Conditional Income Distributions
Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
conditional income distributions in Germany following the reunification. Using a bootstrapped Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we find that … conditional personal income distributions can generally be modelled using the three parameter Dagum distribution. Additionally our …
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Immigrant–Native Wage Inequality across Occupational Sectors in Australia
Islam, Asadul; Parasnis, Jaai - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
We investigate wage inequality by migrant status across white collar and blue collar occupations in Australia. We use the reweighting and recentered influence function regression methods proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) to decompose wage differentials across its distribution....
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The Geography of Average Income and Inequality: Spatial Evidence from Austria
Moser, Mathias; Schnetzer, Matthias - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014
This paper investigates the nexus between regional income levels and inequality. We present a novel small … investigate regional spillover effects of average income and various measures of income inequality. Using this data set we find … econometric regressions to quantify the effects between income levels and a number of inequality measures such as the Gini and 90 …
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The Persistent Inequality in the Great Brazilian Cities: The Case of Brasília
Lima, Ferreira; Cristovao, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the …
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A Persistente Desigualdade nas Grandes Cidades Brasileiras: o Caso de Brasília
Lima, Ferreira; Cristovao, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the …
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Geschlechterspezifische Einkommensunterschiede bei Selbständigen als Freiberufler und Gewerbetreibende im Vergleich zu abhängig Beschäftigten – Ein empirischer Vergleich auf der Gr...
Eilsberger, Patricia; Zwick, Markus - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2011
„Lücke“ zwischen durchschnittlichen Einkommen der Männer im Vergleich zu den Frauen wird regelmäßig als „Gender-Pay-Gap“3 … Frauen und Männern herangezogen. Die ungleichen Einkommen resultieren hierbei nicht allein auf einer unterschiedlichen …
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The Impact of Wal-Mart on Income and Unemployment Differentials in Alabama
Keil, Stanley R.; Spector, Lee C. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 35 (2005) 3, pp. 336-55
of the impact of the presence of Wal-Mart on black-white income and unemployment differentials. It is posited that Wal … demographic and economic variables that affect unemployment and income, the impact of a Wal-Mart is tested by using a dummy …
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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Employment, Wages and Expenditures of Low-Wage Workers in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of a minimum wage increase on employment, wages, and expenditures of workers in the formal sector who have wages below the minimum level in Vietnam. Using the difference-in-differences with propensity score matching and Vietnam Household...
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