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The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary …
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increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality …We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings … declined. Recentered Influence Function decompositions show that throughout the earnings distribution, except at the very top …
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This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions....
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earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we …
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. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect …
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