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Anatomy of income inequality in the United States : 1979-2013
Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017
This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There are two ways in which this paper contributes to the literature. First, I analyze how much of the existing inequality in the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628403
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany : a machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be straightforwardly estimated by adopting a machine learning approach, and apply our novel method to analyse the development of IOP in Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195616
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Bracket creep revisited - with and without r>g : evidence from Germany
Zhu, Junyi - 2015
Using German income distribution in 2009, this paper studies the redistributive and revenue effects of bracket creep under various inflation scenarios. We develop a tax micro-simulation model for the newly available Panel on Household Finance (PHF) data. The simulation yields an inverted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381623
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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831216
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424292
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Capitalist systems and income inequality
Ranaldi, Marco; Milanović, Branko - 2020
-personal inequality. We speculate on the emergence of homoploutic societies where income composition may be the same for all, but Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305082
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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484327
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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels
Lilla, Marco - 2016
The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several countries in the 2000s, by applying pseudo-panel methodology to microdata from the LIS database. Hence, different paths in term of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484346
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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052312
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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019
yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … income has a strong equalizing impact of 3.3-4.5 points of the Gini further accentuated under the top-income corrections. The … equalizing impacts of 4.7-5.7, 1.6-1.9, and 1.2-2.2 points of the Gini, respectively. Indirect taxes and subsidies are weakly …
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