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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012
increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282394
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324272
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PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
Entorf, Horst; Minoiu, Nicoleta - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261789
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007
post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324270
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Multidimensional measurement of richness: Theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269775
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Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278715
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268713
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The distributional impact of in kind public benefits in European countries
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and … comparable methods and data. Inequality in the augmented income measure is dramatically lower than in disposable income, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269523
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour: a Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269603