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household income inequality fell due to deliberate increases in redistribution, the tax and transfer system's insurance role …We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively … the "new inequality" at the very top. Household earnings inequality has risen, driven by male earnings - although a 'catch …
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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
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competitiveness. A comparison of the real purchasing power of net wages reveals a lower income disparity between Austria and CEEs. The …
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interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …
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The inequality growth during the last quarter century is explained as caused by a decreasing labor-labor exchange rate …, Japan, United Kingdom and United States) and Denmark (known for the world least inequality). Finally, it is shown that the … dependence between the degree of inequality and the degree of decline of the labor-labor exchange rate is statistically highly …
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distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …
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The current trends in the capital/labor split and the impacts thereof on the growth of inequality are one of the main … world least inequality). Then statistically significant implications for the growth of inequality are derived and some …
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estimate the development in income inequality in Denmark over the last 140 years. The paper breaks new ground in treating the …. We show that income inequality have declined substantially over the last century with an income share for the top 1 per …
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