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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend the standard heterogeneous agent life cycle model with...
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … develop a model with heterogeneous workers and firms in which the demand for skills is characterized by firms' recruiting … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form …
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Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and a newly available task database for Germany, the evolution of wage inequality …, wage mobility, and the origins of wage mobility are studied. Since 2006 the increase in the German wage inequality has …
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average level. We document for the first time that inequality in … during pregnancy. The increase in inequality in early socio-emotional skills is particularly pronounced for boys. On the …
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average … level. We document for the first time that inequality in socio-emotional skills has increased across cohorts, especially for …
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average … level. We document for the first time that inequality in socio-emotional skills has increased across cohorts, especially for …
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Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high …
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