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Was fehlt in der EVS?. Eine Verteilungsanalyse hoher Einkommen mit der verknüpften Einkommensteuerstatistik für Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte / What is Missing in the EVS?...

Merz, Joachim - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 1, pp. 58-90

Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...

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The rise of middle class in rural China

Yuan, Zhang; Wan, Guanghua; Khor, Niny - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 36-51

rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 … percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on …

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Does College Still Pay?

Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - In: The Economists' Voice 2 (2005) 4

Since the mid-1990s college tuition costs have risen quickly while the rate of increase in the value of education has slowed considerably. Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow explore the reasons and ask if college remains a good investment.

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Causal Returns to Education

Flossmann, Anton L.; Pohlmeier, Winfried - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 1, pp. 6-23

Summary This paper surveys the empirical evidence on causal effects of education on earnings for Germany and compares alternative studies in the light of their underlying identifying assumptions. We work out the different assumptions taken by various studies, which lead to rather different...

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Multiple language usage and earnings in Western Europe

Williams, Donald R. - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) 4, pp. 372-393

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the return to multiple language usage in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – This article aims to estimate the effect that using an additional language at work has on earnings for a sample of workers in the European Community...

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Gender wage gap and education: a stochastic frontier approach

Garcia-Prieto, Carmen; Gómez-Costilla, Patricia - In: International Journal of Manpower 38 (2017) 3, pp. 504-516

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to get deeper insight into the measurement of gender wage gap. A proper method to identify which part of gender wage differences is due to discrimination against women is provided, and the relationship between wage differences and education is studied....

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Do Rising Top Income Shares Affect the Incomes or Earnings of Low and Middle-Income Families?

Thompson, Jeffrey P.; Leight, Elias - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 1

Abstract This paper uses US state panel data to explore the relationship between the share of income received by affluent households and the level of income and earnings received by low and middle-income families. A rising top share of income can potentially lead to increases in the incomes of...

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The Evolution of Household Income Volatility

Dynan, Karen; Elmendorf, Douglas; Sichel, Daniel - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 2

Abstract Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. households, we find that household income became noticeably more volatile between the early 1970s and the late 2000s despite the moderation seen in aggregate economic activity during this period. We estimate that the standard deviation...

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Optimal Origin-based Commodity Taxation in a Small Open Economy

Arachi, Giampaolo - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

Abstract This paper investigates whether the pursuit of redistributional objectives may provide a rationale for origin-based taxation in small open economies. The analysis is developed in a simple two-class economy where consumers are classified according to the type of labour they supply. As...

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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 6 (2006) 2

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive taxation in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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