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Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...
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positive at the onset of the episode, through promising higher inflation rates in future periods. We embed our theory into a …
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underlying skill distribution for selection into entrepreneurship, rent gradients, and city-wide inequality in disposable incomes … selection, which should magnify income inequality in the city. We have no a'priori intuition for the direction of change in … "real" income inequality. Furthermore, a distribution of talent that is more skewed towards highly talented workers should …
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...
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While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level … introduction can account for about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality …
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