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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...
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American Exceptionalism in a New Light : A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
Jantti, Markus; Bratsberg, Bernt; Roed, Knut; Raaum, … - 2021
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyze differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Paulus, Alari - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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Migrants at School : Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst - 2009
on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … Germany who lose ground on other groups …
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality : A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the Usa
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus - 2021
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run : Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975
Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between …
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