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We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...
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In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168056
In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: More than half of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306323
We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of …, housing ownership and rental income particularly increased in large municipalities and urban areas; that rental income … explains an increasing share of income inequality; and that the wealth inequality contribution of primary residence has …
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are household equivalent disposable in-come, household consumption, and wealth. Subsequently we use the Income and … Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS)) for Germany since 1993 to compare inequality across income … income and income more une-qually than consumption. …
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Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...
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This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …
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This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
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