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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990
Gradín, Carlos - 2020
witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …
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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …
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Declining Wages Increase Selfish Redistribution in an Environment with Fixed Income Inequality
Zaunbrecher, Henrik W. - 2020
We use a highly-controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases on redistribution …-personal decreases create dissatisfaction for an individual, that person may support redistribution policies that compensate him or her … experience decreasing wages. While many studies examine the effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, this is the …
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Reducing income inequality in Europe
Atkinson, Anthony B. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-11
World leaders have come to recognise the challenge posed by high and rising economic inequality. This paper asks how Europe can address excessive inequality. It argues that we should learn from the lessons of history; there have been significant periods in the past when inequality fell. We can...
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Perceived income positions and attitudes towards EU inequality : a cross-country survey experiment
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Wang, Hequn; Jäger, Julian; Beblo, … - 2022
We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational-level. Conducting a survey in four EU Member States (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that their citizens misperceive their own income position in the EU. Once we...
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517639
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519518
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The gender gap in income and the COVID-19 pandemic
Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2021
women. Policy conclusions are drawn about future redistribution between men and women. …
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From gross wages to net household income : a distributional analysis of the gender wage gap ; conference paper
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2014
Numerous studies analyze gender wage differences focusing on gross hourly wages. The analysis of differences in gross wages allows statements on productivity differences between men and women and to quantify the unexplainable wage gap which is often attributed to discrimination. While there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487268
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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
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