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increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …
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The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
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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...
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The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...
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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 …
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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 …
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