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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168056
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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic idiosyncratic income into its transitory, persistent and fixed components …. We then estimate how income risk, measured by the variance and the skewness of the probability distribution of shocks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872060
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Income risk inequality : evidence from Spanish administrative records
Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - 2021
In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665300
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Asymmetries in earnings, employment and wage risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour … BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014. We measure idiosyncratic risk in labour income by the relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624196
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Top earners : cross-country facts
Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017
We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697392
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Cyclical income risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic idiosyncratic income into its transitory, persistent and fixed components …. We then estimate how income risk, measured by the variance and the skewness of the probability distribution of shocks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996331
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886897
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Income risk inequality : evidence from Spanish administrative records
Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1747-1801
In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: More than half of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306323
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The role of rental income, real estate and rents for inequality in Germany
Bartels, Charlotte; Schroeder, Carsten - 2020
We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of …, housing ownership and rental income particularly increased in large municipalities and urban areas; that rental income … explains an increasing share of income inequality; and that the wealth inequality contribution of primary residence has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014459461