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I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
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I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572170
Earnings Survey (GSES), a variance decomposition of earnings inequality reveals that hours inequality and the covariance …This paper studies the relationship between inequalities in working hours and overall earnings inequality in Germany … between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …
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of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
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of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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potential entitlements simulated with the tax/benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper estimates the size of non …
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The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
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Studies have shown that the previously growing inequality in China has stabilized and even declined since 2008 (Kanbur … et al., 2021), nevertheless, the drivers of the latest trans-formation in income inequality remain to be unraveled. We … from 2010 to 2016. We apply the distributional decomposition method proposed by Bourguignon et al. (2008) and Sologon et al …
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We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
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