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Household earnings in Putin's Russia : distributional changes across socioeconomic groups, 2000-2016
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2022
Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309457
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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment : caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
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Is Self-Employment the Answer to Caste Discrimination? Decomposing the Earnings Gap in Indian Household Nonfarm Businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2014
Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, we employ two methodologies to estimate the earnings structure of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs: OLS estimation of mean earnings, and quantile regressions. Correspondingly, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058821
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...
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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...
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A cautionary note on using industry affiliation to predict income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620938
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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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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU : 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...
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