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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random...

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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossef - 2017

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...

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Women in top incomes : evidence from Sweden 1974-2013

Boschini, Anne; Gunnarsson, Kristin; Roine, Jesper - 2017

Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974–2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has...

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Innovation, inequality and a golden rule for growth in an economy with Cobb-Douglas function and an R&D sector

Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2015

The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The … capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

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Has intergenerational progress stalled? : income growth over five generations of Americans

Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024

progress for Generation X and Millennials is due to their stalled growth in work hours - holding work hours constant, they … Millennials under age 30 has remained robust as well, although their income growth largely results from higher reliance on their …

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Public education for the children left behind

Camacho, Carmen; Shen, I-Ling - 2010

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...

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Geography of skills and global inequality

Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018

and mobility decisions, population growth, and income disparities across and within countries. First, our static …

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Is there a "new consensus" on inequality?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2023

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality? This paper argues that there is widespread acceptance that multiple, interrelated and mutually reinforcing inequalities exist - in income, wealth, education, health, power,...

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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968 - 2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968-2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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