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In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …
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This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of …
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This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two parts, we find that both components are important contributors to the total variance of earnings. We also find that...
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The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …
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inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
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von Beschäftigungsformen, Arbeitszeiten, Einkommen, Arbeitsorganisation, Gesundheit, Weiterbildung bis hin zu subjektiven …
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Für die Bürger in den neuen Bundesländern zeigt sich der Erfolg der Wiedervereinigung in hohem Maße in der Angleichung der Lebensverhältnisse mit den Einwohnern des früheren Bundesgebietes. Nach Berechnungen des ifo Instituts lag das um Kaufkraftunterschiede korrigierte Verhältnis der...
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von wirtschaftlichen Faktoren ab, diese werden aber dominieren. Entscheidend ist der Umfang, zu dem die Einkommen der … Jungen in Anspruch genommen werden, um die Einkommen der Alten zu finanzieren. Soll die Einkommensverteilung unverändert …
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