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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …
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different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …
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We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …
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public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …
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