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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018

The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...

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Information, social mobility and the demand for redistribution

Feri, Francesco - 2008

aggregate income transition function. Finally, using data from Italy, we test the model and perform a first empirical estimation … of the POUM effect in Italy. -- social mobility ; income distribution ; political economy ; inequality ; taxation …

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Labour Income Inequality : Evidence from Italy

Carta, Francesca; de Philippis, Marta - 2021

The spread of the pandemic and the consequent adoption of lockdown measures to prevent infections had severe consequences for business activity and employment. By using data from the Italian Labour Force Survey, this paper simulates the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on the dynamics and...

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Gerechtigkeitspolitische Handlungsfelder in Deutschland : relevante Probleme angemessen angehen

Anger, Christina; Hüther, Michael; Klös, Hans-Peter; … - 2017

Zentrale verteilungspolitische Indikatoren in Deutschland haben sich seit dem Jahr 2005 wieder normalisiert oder sogar strukturell verbessert. Dennoch bleiben mindestens drei zentrale Herausforderungen: Erstens gelingt es nicht, die Langzeitarbeitslo-sigkeit stärker als bereits geschehen...

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey Y. - 2015

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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The Geography of Executive Compensation

Bouwman, Christa H. S. - 2012

Based on a variety of theoretical motivations, this paper first examines empirically whether geography affects CEO compensation and finds that it does. Specifically, if the CEOs of firms that are geographically-close to CEO i's firm experience a 1% increase in salary in a given year, CEO i will...

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Measuring Income and Wealth at the Top Using Administrative and Survey Data

Bricker, Jesse; Henriques, Alice M.; Krimmel, Jacob; … - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015

Administrative tax data indicate that U.S. top income and wealth shares are substantial and increasing rapidly (Piketty and Saez 2003, Saez and Zucman 2014). A key reason for using administrative data to measure top shares is to overcome the under-representation of families at the very top that...

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Still Searching for the Wage Curve : Evidence from Germany and Italy

Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and …;wage curvequot; in Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group …

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Earnings Inequality : New York-New Jersey Region

Brauer, David - 2007

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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report

Tanner, Michael - 2022

COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...

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