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We study the determinants of lifetime earnings (LE) inequality in the United States, for which differences in lifetime …
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We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …
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This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
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I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011 … the distribution of job value among workers and find a positive correlation between wage and non-wage value. Inequality in … job value is thus considerably greater than wage inequality, reflected in the standard deviation of job value being more …
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concentration and wage inequality. Using a calibrated agent-based macroeconomic framework, the Eurace@Unibi model, we consider … inequality has an inverted U-shape with a large fraction of workers profiting in the very long run from high wages offered by …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
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Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
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substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …
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generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
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