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Women in top incomes : evidence from Sweden 1974-2013

Boschini, Anne; Gunnarsson, Kristin; Roine, Jesper - 2018

wealthier and rely more on capital incomes, but the difference, relative to men, has decreased since the 1970s. Over this period … capital incomes have in general become more important in the top, but the share of working-rich women has gone up, while the … opposite is true for men. Realized capital gains are more important for top income women but turn out to be of a more …

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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons

Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 to 2010. Using a rich annual data set from surveys in all three countries, we analyze wages both using conventional wage regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices....

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Long term trends in fair and unfair inequality in the United States

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael - 2014

This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....

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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe

Hajdu, Gábor - 2021

This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...

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Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons

Aristizábal-Ramírez, María; Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo J - 2015

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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe

Hajdu, Gábor - 2021

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Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael - 2014

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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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The subversive nature of inequality : subjective inequality perceptions and attitudes to social inequality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2015

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining individual wages. This finding is robust to the use of an instrumental-variable estimation strategy...

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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels

Lilla, Marco - 2016

The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several countries in the 2000s, by applying pseudo-panel methodology to microdata from the LIS database. Hence, different paths in term of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining...

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