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increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …
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increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202913
The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
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This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327816
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …
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of individuals taking into consideration inequality in life expectancy, temporal variability of income, and interactions …
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Income inequality is usually considered in terms of its current development. A long-term perspective allows us to … inequality of wages and salaries earned over an entire working lifetime using a new kind of dataset. The findings show that the … inequality of lifetime social security earnings of western German male workers doubled between the 1935 and 1972 birth cohorts …
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