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We explore the effects of income and, additionally education on the income, self-reported health and survival of men … conventional analysis with its focus on labour income excluding employers' pension contributions. We find that income at age sixty …
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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characteristics, (ii) his level of schooling, and (iii) his level of income. The agent enjoys social prestige (or su¤ers from social … show that social concerns always lead to an increase in inequality both in terms of educational achievements and income. In …
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This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
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, size and the composition of the family, and education of the parents have a significant impact on the schooling decision …
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'll estimate the intergenerational income elasticity for Italy using the TS2SLS estimator methodology. The analysis of the results …
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In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
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of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …
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This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
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This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...
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