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This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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measure income risk as the observed variation of household income over a five year period. We find that indeed higher income … subjective measures of a household's financial situation (income satisfaction, worries about financial situation), the impact of …We investigate the determinants of a household's decision on whether to invest in risky financial assets. Financial …
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an 'iceberg' specification. In our model, agents differ by income. A commuting costs are paid as a fraction of income, it … income - income net of land rent and commuting costs. First, we will derive the comparative statics of the equilibrium … selection, which should magnify income inequality in the city. We have no a'priori intuition for the direction of change in …
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For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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