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Inequality, Technology and Job Polarization of the Youth Labor Market in Europe

Bheemaiah, Kariappa - 2015

This paper presents a connecting methodology in order to trace the emerging dynamics of inequality for the youth populace of Europe. We determine that the development of these dynamics are directly affected by the advancement of technology, and especially related to Information and Communication...

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Chapter 4 Historical perspectives on income distribution: The case of Europe

Morrisson, Christian - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 217-260). 2000

The evolution of income distribution over two centuries is an attractive topic because it allows one to test the inverse U-curve hypothesis using long series instead of cross-section data. In Section 1 the distribution trends in countries where global data are available, is considered, that is...

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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012

Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...

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From gross wages to net household income : a distributional analysis of the gender wage gap ; conference paper

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2014

. This leads to high marginal tax rates for second earners and affects after-tax income differences between men and women. …

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

disposable income of households. This requires taking into account the distribution of working hours as well as the tax …

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

disposable income of households. This requires taking into account the distribution of working hours as well as the tax …

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Effects of the German minimum wage on wages and household income

Pusch, Toralf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 245 (2025) 1/2, pp. 153-183

This article examines the effects of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on the distribution of individual income from wages, as well as gross and net means-weighted income of workers in Germany. For the first time, data from the Survey of Income and Consumption was used, in which...

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Does the German minimum wage benefit low income households : a comparison of observed outcomes and simulated potential effects

Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019

Previous literature on the distributional impact of the minimum wage in Germany has either focused on earnings and hourly wages (Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on exante simulations (Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the...

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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis

Lübker, Malte - 2019

in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support … endogenous to the welfare state; (b) relative earnings differentials are not a valid proxy measure for the structure of income …

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Taking stock of South African income inequality

Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal; Green, Pippa - 2018

new datasets—including income tax data—and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and … qualifications are key drivers of a widening earnings distribution. Tax data merged with survey data show that those at the top of …. Direct taxes and social grants are progressive, indirect taxes are less progressive, and tax exemptions for health insurance …

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