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perspective. By adopting a newly developed synthetic measure of compositional inequality, this work classifies more than 20 …
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We document that mean earnings of managers grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle for a group of high-income countries. Furthermore, we find that the growth of earnings for managers (relative to non managers) is positively correlated with output per worker across these countries....
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inequality. But do they really contribute to the increase in inequality? And, if so, what are the reasons? Is it because they are … financial centers contribute more than other urban areas to the increase in inequality, both at the national and local levels …
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Over the last three decades, the wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and North America, increased by a factor of two. This represents a defining empirical trend: a rewealthization (from the French repatrimonialisation) - or the comeback of (inherited)...
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In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society's aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …
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distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …
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I propose a disaggregated analysis of the income that households receive to compare the redistributive capacity of the state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa. I...
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Previous research has shown single mothers to be less well-off and at higher risk of poverty than mothers in couples. In this article, I extend current research by examining how single motherhood affects income at different quantiles of the distribution in twelve rich nations. Using harmonised...
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Objective: To assess whether an indicator of structural racism - the legacy of slavery - impacts racial inequality in … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an 'individual-level' variable results in relatively less attention to the role of …) relates to Black-White inequality in poverty among single mother households and among married with children households in the …
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higher education expansion for labour income inequality has largely treated expansion as gender neutral. With this paper we … inequality to increase tertiary education among women as compared to men. To this end we draw on harmonised data from the … distributive estimates shrink towards zero over time for both women and men. Only for men does larger inequality between and within …
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