Trends In earnings dispersion and income distribution
Accounting for income distribution trends: A density function decomposition approach
... UK income distribution trends between 1979 and 1990/91 unravelled what was, at first glance, a complex ...in income levels shifted density mass towards higher income levels, and these ...
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Recent trends in Spanish Income Distribution: A Robust Picture of Falling Income Inequality.
... Abstract: Income distribution in Spain has experienced a substantial improvement towards equalisation during the second half of the seventies and the eighties; a period during which most OECD countries ...
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
... the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to ...While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after ...hand, ...
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Trends in Income Distribution in the Post-World War II Period Evidence and Interpretation
... The study has also argued that while the ‘old causes’ of inequality explain the high cross country variation in the level of inequality, they cannot account for its widespread increase in a large number of developed, ...
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Trends in the Italian Earnings Distribution, 1985-1996
... Observed earnings distributions tend to present a number of empirical ...mean earnings always exceed median earnings and the top percentiles of earners account for quite a disproportionate share of ...
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Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution
... log earnings and for both men and women and their ...log earnings are rather stable over time. For women the income is increasing over ...the distribution of the earnings at age 35 ...
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Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
... Figure 1b shows that the growth in deep poverty from 1984 to 2004 arose entirely from growth in the number of very poor disabled families and childless families—the fractions in all other three groups declined. For the ...
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Economic Explanations of Earnings Distribution Trends in the International Literature and Application to New Zealand
... reduce earnings dispersion, increases in earnings inequality might be explained by decreases in the real value of the minimum ...of earnings dispersion in an ...
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Recent Trends in the Distribution of Income: Labor, Wealth and More Complete Measures of Well Being
... the income distribution and therefore do not affect lower ...low income persons, they pale in comparison to the levels of imputed income from assets for the large majority of households, ...
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Trends in the distribution of income in Australia
... of income inequality is that they can overstate or understate the distribution of consumption possibilities by ignoring household wealth, as both income and wealth contribute to households’ capacity ...
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Jobs, Workers and Changes in Earnings Dispersion
... the distribution of employers is described in Table ...the distribution experienced by the typical worker as is evident when the industrial distribution is weighted by ...
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
... 1 Introduction The acquisition of general human capital through education is one of the most important activities by which young individuals increase their potential lifetime earnings. While enrolled in school, ...
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Growth in Labor Earnings Across the Income Distribution: Latin America during the 2000s
... labor earnings in Brazil and Mexico have increased more for formal workers than for informal workers, at 18 and 14 percent ...monthly earnings within the informal group possibly indicates that income ...
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Monopolistic competition and income dispersion
... 1 Introduction The CES model of monopolistic competition developed by Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) has been applied successfully to a wide range of economic elds (Brakman and Heijdra, 2004). Yet, there is a growing ...
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Trends in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
... of Income Dynamics (PSID) sample observed between 1968 and ...the trends by earnings groups, and I examine the trends involving female members of the family as ...
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Income Dispersion and Counter-Cyclical Markups
... in earnings dispersion over the last 50 years would make the model’s cycles more volatile because the individual earn- ings processes have become more ...Higher dispersion can lower business cycle ...
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Trends in income support
... the earnings of most individuals who left welfare were still well below the poverty line, even many years after their ...the earnings of disad- vantaged ...
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Earnings management and the distribution of earnings relative to targets: UK evidence
... special items (SI) conditional on earnings relative to targets. This enables us to evaluate whether firms also widely use misclassification of XI and SI as a means of achieving earnings targets. A new ...
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Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality?
... Keywords: Earnings inequality, Working hours, Inequality index decomposition 1 Introduction A vast literature has examined the evolution of wage and earnings inequality over the past three decades and, ...
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Geographic Dispersion of Investors and Price Discovery around Earnings Announcements.
... of dispersion on these three elements of price discovery, I develop a series of predictions based upon prior research which suggests that investors utilize private information when evaluating public disclosures ...
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