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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful ?omnibus measure? of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276293
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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89
This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478789
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Work-sharing for a sustainable economy
Zwickl, Klara; Disslbacher, Franziska; Stagl, Sigrid - 2016
Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418475
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335242
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Did inequality cause the U.S. financial crisis?
Treeck, Till van - 2012
kept private consumption and thus aggregate demand and employment high, despite stagnating incomes for many households. But … the United States. We place the Rajan hypothesis in the context of competing theories of consumption, and survey the … income hypothesis of consumption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616515
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014
This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475702
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Can we steer income comparison attitudes by information provision? : evidence from randomized survey experiments in the US and the UK
Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015
Economists have long been concerned that negative attitudes about relative income reduce social welfare. This paper investigates whether such attitudes can be mitigated by a simple information treatment. Toward this end, we conducted an original randomized online survey experiment in the US and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490894
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Bjorklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321281
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human … capital ; consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688539