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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

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The making of China and India in the 21st Century: Long-run human capital a accumulation from 1900 to 2020

Bharti, Nitin Kumar; Li, Yang - 2024

economic implications: education inequality (gini) is not only higher in India but also accounts for a larger share of wage … inequality in India (25%), compared with less than 12% in China. Despite a larger share of tertiary-educated graduates, India …

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...

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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: More employment and more inequality

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015

persists for PIT reductions, while the overall effects on inequality and progressivity become lower when payroll taxes are …

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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach

Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …

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The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020

Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...

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Government expenditure in the DINA framework: Allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …

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