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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...
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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 for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564018
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484753
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012
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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 for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546250
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The gender gap in top jobs : the role of overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 79 (2022), pp. 1-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234799
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Redistributive effects of the US pension system among individuals with different life expectancy
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia - 2017
We investigate the differential impact that pension systems have on the labor supply and the accumulation of physical and human capital for individuals that differ by their learning ability and levels of life expectancy. Our analysis is calibrated to the US economy using a general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625626
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Redistributive effects of different pension structures when longevity varies by socioeconomic status in a general equilibrium setting
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Lee, Ron; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099190
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Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again
Rietveld, Cornelius A. - 2024
I offer a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547824
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The impact of reducing the pension generosity on inequality and schooling
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia - 2019
inequality. We develop an overlapping generations model in which individuals differ by their life expectancy and in the cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142180