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, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes. We find that, whereas the income mobility literature is hampered by …
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income and consumption space over a 10-year period, thus adding to the relatively limited evidence on changes in IOP over … time. Second, we propose and estimate "circumstance" elasticities as measures of the responsiveness of current income and …
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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance …
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We document facts about earnings and disposable income inequality and growth in Denmark in the period 1987-2016. During … excess kurtosis. Denmark has a progressive income tax system with a high level of taxes and a relatively generous and heavily … subsidized unemployment insurance system. Consequently, the dispersion of log disposable income growth is much smaller than for …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us-for the first time-to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
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In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: More than half of the …
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among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income … the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …
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