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Scaling of Inequality : Urbanization Favors High Wage Earners
Shutters, Shade T.; Applegate, J. M.; Wentz, Elizabeth; … - 2021
As cities increase in size, total wages grow superlinearly, meaning that average wages are higher in larger cities … positively to human well-being. However, it remains unclear how the distribution of wages changes as cities grow. Here we segment … the populations of U.S. cities into wage deciles and determine the scaling coefficient of each bracket's aggregate wages …
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Inequality of earnings in Germany generally accepted but low incomes considered unfair
Adriaans, Jule; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 37, pp. 347-352
Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study as well as a separate survey of German employees (LINOS) show that earnings inequalities are generally perceived as fair while a substantial share of the...
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Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms : the Italian case
Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1637-1667
This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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Sectoral trends in earnings inequality and employment International trade, skill-biased technological change, or labour market institutions?
Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; Vliet, Olaf van - 2013
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
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Sectoral Trends in Earnings Inequality and Employment : International Trade, Skill-Biased Technological Change, or Labour Market Institutions?
Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; van Vliet, Olaf - 2013
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155368
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Social Distance between Workers : An Application to Italian Geographic Areas
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper is concerned with the measurement of social distance, clustering, or polarization between workers of a given society. This concept is fundamentally different from that of inequality and thus cannot be measured by any Lorenz consistent index. Similarly, it cannot be additively...
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The effect of children on male earnings and inequality
Kunze, Astrid - In: Review of Economics of the Household 18 (2020) 3, pp. 683-710
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Universal preschool lottery admissions and its effects on long-run earnings and outcomes
Akee, Randall; Clark, Leah R. - 2023
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? : insights from Sweden
Forsberg, Erika; Akib Khan; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024
hard to identify, the results suggest that life is more formed by individual endowments and considerations for children …
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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 - 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of...
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