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concentration on inequality are not sizeable, the impact on wages for skilled and unskilled workers is significant. …We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing …
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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
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This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major …
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heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany. We validate the estimated elasticities with …
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inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks … generate enough concentration at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. …
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In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …
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some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a …
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-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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