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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7738 Rolf Aaberge
Tarjei Havnes
Magne Mogstad
A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution ...
(published as 'Ranking intersecting distribution functions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36 (6), 639 - 662)
D30, D63, I31
7737 Olivier B. Bargain
Tim Callan
Karina Doorley
Claire Keane
Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585)
H23, H53, I32
7736 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 79, 133 -149)
D70, D71, D72
7735 Patrick Kline
Enrico Moretti
People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2014, 6, 629-662 ()
H2, R1, J2
7734 Eva Sierminska
Karina Doorley
To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2018, 25 (1), 1-43)
G11, G21, J10
7733 Sutirtha Bagchi
Jan Svejnar
Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530)
D31, O40, O43
7732 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68 )
F22, J61, C41
7731 Almas Heshmati
Robert Rudolf
Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436. )
D63, D31, I31, C14
7730 Markus Jäntti
Stephen P. Jenkins
Income Mobility
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: AB Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, North-Holland Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 10, 807–935.)
D31, I30
7728 Linguère Mously Mbaye
'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal
Fatalities from illegal immigration from Africa is an important issue, representing a major challenge for both major migrant sending and receiving countries. Nonetheless, almost nothing is known ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 21 (2014))
F22, O15
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