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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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The Distribution of Annual and Long-Run US Earnings, 1981-2004
Leonesio, Michael V. - 2015
Numerous authors have presented evidence of increased dispersion in the distribution of annual earnings in the United States from the late 1970s through 2004 or later. However, the dispersion of long-run earnings measured over many years has received relatively little attention because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038273
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Wage differentials and the spatial concentration of high-technology industries
Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie; Ayala, Sofia G. - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 88 (2009) 3, pp. 623-641
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925918
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Skills substitutability and technological progress : U.S. states 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509429
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Skills Substitutability and Technological Progress : U.S. States 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2021
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319786
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Skills' substitutability and technological progress : US states 1950 - 1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001807110
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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective
Bičáková, Alena; Sierminska, Eva - 2008 - This version: February 2008
rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … different degree of development of their respective mortgage markets. In Italy, alternative ways of financing, such as family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631928
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political economy model of tax determination, I study the effect of voters with a group-based social conscience, so they care more about the well-being of those belonging to their own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508116
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Mortality and Lifetime Income : Evidence from U.S. Social Security Records
Duggan, James - 2008
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled persons. We investigate the relationship between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773661