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FDI and income inequality: Evidence from Europe

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2011

inequality in Europe, (2) the long-run effect of FDI on inequality, however, is negative on average, (3) long-run causality runs …

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The distribution and re-distribution of income of self-employed as freelancers and entrepreneurs in Europe

Merz, Joachim; Hirschel, Dierk - 2003

von Selbständigkeit prägte nachhaltig die Einkommensverteilung von Selbstständigen und Freiberuflern. Jüngste Studien für … Einkommensverteilung von Selbstständigen und Freiberuflern. Trotz des Sachverhalts, dass bereits eine ganze Reihe an internationalen … Studien zur Einkommensverteilung existieren, gibt es nach unserem Kenntnisstand bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt keine Untersuchung …

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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance: How risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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Ambition and jealousy: income interactions in the old Europe versus the new Europe and the United States

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2006

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over …

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Aktive Wettbewerbspolitik für effiziente Elektrizitätserzeugungsmärkte: Instrumente, internationale Erfahrungen und wirtschaftspolitische Schlussfolgerungen

von Hirschhausen, Christian; Weigt, Hannes - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 1, pp. 65-86

competition policy in electricity markets: prominent examples come from England and the United States. Continental Europe has also …

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Drivers of Wealth Inequality in Euro-Area Countries

Leitner, Sebastian - 2016

Abstract This paper investigates the sources of inequality in household gross and net wealth across eight euro-area countries applying the Shapley value approach to decomposition. The research draws on micro data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2010. Dispersion in...

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