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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
Receiving equal wages for work of equal value is a legal right in many countries. However, it remains unknown to what degree the neglect of this principle yields differences in pay between social and other occupations. The results of a task-based analysis with survey data confirm a notable wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455517
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Institution formation and cooperation with heterogeneous agents
Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - 2014
Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414346
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Eliciting Thresholds for Interdependent Behavior
Janas, Moritz; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Siegenthaler, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Threshold models have been widely used to analyze interdependent behavior, yet empirical research identifying people's thresholds is nonexistent. We introduce an incentivized method for eliciting thresholds and use it to study support for affirmative action in a large, stratified sample of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056173
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Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation : theory and application to Europe and the U.S.
Maniquet, François; Neumann, Dirk - 2016
In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528840
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483661
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny (contributor); Pencavel, John H. (contributor) - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289890
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Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780529
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Size matters : measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Sun, Rui - 2020
between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404500
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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023
We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442793