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The historical racial regime and racial inequality in poverty in the American South

Baker, Regina S. - 2021

Building on literatures on racial regimes and the legacy of slavery, this study conceptualizes and constructs a novel measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in the American South. The HRR scale measures different...

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Earnings capacity, poverty, and inequality

Garfinkel, Irwin; Haveman, Robert H. - 1977

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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 49 (2003) 4, pp. 513-537

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality - A Factor Decomposition Analysis for the UK, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 9 (2011) 1, pp. 35-56

West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, we use the factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (Econometrica 50 … high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Widerstreitende Interessen - Ungenutzte Chancen. Jahresgutachten 2006/07

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Earnings inequality and the equity premium

Walentin, Karl - 2007

We present data from the Survey of Consumer Finances showing that the increased earnings (labor income) inequality, in combination with increased stockmarket participation, has roughly doubled stockholders' share of aggregate labor income in the last four decades. We explore the impact of the...

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Inequality and savings

Andersen, Henrik Yde; Krause, Thomas; Bartscher, Alina … - 2022

This memo studies the impact of demographic shifts and income inequality on the evolution of savings rates in Denmark, and compares with evidence from the US. Income inequality has followed similar trends in Denmark as in the US, and savings rates vary in a similar way over the life cycle and...

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Hohe und weiter steigende Ungleichheit in den USA: Politisch nicht gewollt und doch geduldet?

Sell, Friedrich L.; Stiefl, Jürgen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 104 (2024) 6, pp. 420-426

persönlichen Einkommen in den USA zwischen 1947 und 2020 ungleicher geworden ist. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die möglichen Konzepte … Ergebnisse, dass weder klare Wahl- oder Parteizyklen in den Daten der Einkommensverteilung in den USA zu erkennen sind, noch dass … of personal incomes has become more unequal in the USA in the periods between 1947 and 2020. This paper investigates the …

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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.

Wacker, Ulrich - 2002

This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...

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