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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America

Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to "new century, old disparities"

Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...

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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010 - Rev.

This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of...

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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the 1992 and 2007 LIMEW estimates for the United States

Masterson, Thomas - 2010

The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for the United States for 1992 and 2007 is described. The first match combines the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) with the 1993 March Supplement to the Current Population Survey, or Annual Demographic Supplement...

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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the 1999 and 2005 LIMEW estimates for Canada

Masterson, Thomas - 2010

The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Canada for 1999 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) with the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The second match combines the 1998 General...

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Simulations of full-time employment and household work in the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico

Masterson, Thomas - 2012

The method for simulation of labor market participation used in the LIMTIP models for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico is described. In each case, all eligible adults not working full-time were assigned full-time jobs. In all households that included job recipients, the time spent on household...

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Los cambios en la distribución del ingreso de Argentina entre 1998 y 2005

Ignacio Zoloa, Juan - 2011

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in … order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important … played an important role in the rise in inequality while the rise in the unobservable factors and the higher levels of …

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Gender earnings gaps in the world

Ñopo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - 2011

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...

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Quality of statistical match and simulations used in the estimation of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) for Turkey in 2006

Masterson, Thomas - 2013

The quality of match of the statistical match used in the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) estimates for Turkey in 2006 is described. The match combines the 2006 Zaman Kullanim Anketi (ZKA 2006) with the 2006 Hanehalki Bütçe Anketi (HBA 2006). These are the...

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