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Policy, institutional factors and earnings mobility

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...

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Early retirement and inequality in Britain and Germany : how important is health?

Roberts, Jennifer; Rice, Nigel; Jones, Andrew M. - 2009

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in Britain, are much more concentrated in the lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that...

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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important dimension and the interdependence of the...

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …, regions, welfare regimes; (3) across the individual life course, thus analyzing the impact of investment income on …

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An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer : a relative deprivation approach

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017

income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich … as measured by the Gini index. We use this result as an input in assessing the social welfare consequence of the transfer …. Measuring social welfare by Sen's social welfare function, we show that the transfer reduces social welfare. These two results …

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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S. - 2000

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...

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Capital income shares and income inequality in the European Union

Schlenker, Eva; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013

In this paper, we measure the effect of changing capital income shares upon inequality of gross household income. Using EU-SILC data covering 17 EU countries from 2005 to 2011 we find that capital income shares are positively associated with the concentration of gross household income. Moreover,...

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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?

Schneck, Stefan - 2014

This paper analyzes the nexus between income comparisons and perceptions of unfair pay. We apply a large German household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with...

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Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013

We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...

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Declining tax progression and the German dual income tax : conference paper

Jenderny, Katharina - 2013 - Preliminary version

This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of a final withholding tax on capital income on the progression of the German income tax. As previous literature shows, even with synthetic income taxation, tax progression was strongest in the middle of the income distribution, and decreased...

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