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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation - new explorative insights from Germany
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021
true for mothers in the medium-term, but their earnings barely improve during that time. Mothers stay highly involved in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587604
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Parental investments in early life and child outcomes : evidence from Swedish parental leave rules
Ginja, Rita; Jans, Jenny; Karimi, Arizo - 2017
How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by exploiting the so-called speed premium (SP) in the Swedish parental leave (PL) system. The SP grants mothers higher PL benefits for the subsequent child without the need to...
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020
Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240449
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What is the Source of the Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings?
Gayle, George-Levi - 2019
This paper uses a dynastic model of household behavior to estimate and decomposed the correlations in earnings across … generations. The estimate model can explain 75% to 80% of the observed correlation in lifetime earnings between fathers and sons … investment in children are the main driving force behind the intergenerational correlation in earnings and assortative mating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904042
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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities : a ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674603
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Male Earnings Inequality, Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality in Australia, 1982-2007
Austen, Siobhan; Redmond, Gerry - 2013
This paper uses cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between the growth in earnings inequality among men …, changes in women’s earnings and changes in family income inequality in Australia between 1982 and 2007-08. Male earnings …’s employment and earnings on family income inequality changed over the study period. During the years associated with the Hawke …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157738
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Extended Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics of Labour Market and Household Activities a Ten Years Microanalysis with the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2014
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207261
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implies that the US is effectively moving towards a general child benefit. However, the amount paid out is dependent on income, similar to schemes in several other countries. In the present paper, we argue that instead of suppressing the labour supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800676
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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder : Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Bourguignon, Francois; … - 2004
. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, we also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113136
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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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