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The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: Decomposition and uniform ordering
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Pitts, M. Melinda; Wu, Ke - 2014
We examine the cardinal gap between wage distributions of the incumbents and newly hired workers based on entropic distances that are well-defined welfare theoretic measures. Decomposition of several effects is achieved by identifying several counterfactual distributions of different groups....
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A theory for ranking distribution functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
We propose a general framework to unambiguously compare distributions functions in an economically interpretable way. Our framework provides complete ranking of any set of distributions and money metric interpretation of the social welfare level of a dominating distribution as compared to a...
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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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The conditional influence of poverty, inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Eita, Joel Hinaunye - 2023
Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) in sub-Saharan Africa, while economic growth is also essential for the achievement of attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549258
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
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Risk and Inequality in a Social Decision Making Experiment
Rohde, Ingrid M.T.; Rohde, Kirsten I.M. - 2012
individual perspective, but also from a societal one. Many increases in social risk involve a simultaneous increase in risk and … inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and …
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Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E.; van Rens, Thijs - 2007
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276396
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Mobility, taxation and welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...
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Inequality, Life Expectancy, and the Intragenerational Redistribution Puzzle - Some Experimental Evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We find that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, significantly lowers subjects’ willingness …
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Star Power and Risk. A Political Economic Study of Casting Trends in Hollywood
McMahon, James - 2022
This paper builds an empirical and theoretical model to analyze how the financial goal of risk reduction changed the … business and culture of cinema. If the evolution of Hollywood's star system is shaped by broader social factors, risk reduction … was a factor in this period of risk reduction. Film casting assists risk reduction when a star system is built on …
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