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Income volatility and insecurity in the U.S., Germany and Britain [PDF]

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Income volatility is studied as a component of economic insecurity using recent data from the Cross National Equivalence File (CNEF). Techniques from the inequality literature are applied to longitudinal household incomes and we refer to the results as ...
Kam Ki Tang, Nicholas Rohde, Prasada Rao
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La formación del maestro de educación física en el Uruguay (1921-1929) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Este trabajo forma parte de un conjunto de indagaciones más amplias sobre las discursividades de la formación en las diversas modalidades que adquirió la preparación de docentes de educación física en Uruguay entre fines del siglo XIX y la primera mitad ...
Dogliotti, Paola
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Reassessing Intergenerational Mobility in Germany and the United States: The Impact of Differences in Lifecycle Earnings Patterns [PDF]

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Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities ...
Thorsten Vogel
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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan [PDF]

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Using kernel density estimation we find that over their 1990s business cycles the entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined.
Ludmila Rovba   +2 more
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Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared [PDF]

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A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility.
Andrew Leigh
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Perspectives of Workers with Low Qualifications in Germany under the Pressures of Globalization and Technical Progress [PDF]

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This paper gives a detailed analysis of the perspectives of workers with low qualifications in Germany under the twofold pressures of globalization and technological change. First, alter-native explanations for the skill-bias in the development of labour
Harald Hagemann, Ralf Rukwid
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The Contribution and Potential of Data Harmonization for Cross-National Comparative Research [PDF]

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The promise of empirical evidence to inform policy makers about their population's health, wealth, employment and economic well being has propelled governments to invest in the harmonization of country specific micro data over the last 25 years.
Dean R. Lillard, Richard V. Burkhauser
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Relative or absolute poverty in the US and EU? The battle of the rates [PDF]

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US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher.
Neubourg, Chris de, Notten, Geranda
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