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]
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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Statistical Measurement of Income Polarization. A cross-national comparison [PDF]
While recent research on income polarization is based on only a few approaches, this paper portrays the major methods and applies each to income distributions of Germany (1984-2000) and the US (1984-1997) using the Cross-National Equivalent Files.
Axel Schmidt
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Cross-National Trends in Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality [PDF]
Changes in inequality of yearly earnings can arise from changes in the distribution of lifetime earnings (permanent changes) and changes in the stability of earnings (transitory changes).
Mary C. Daly, Robert G. Valletta
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Educación del cuerpo y educación física en la creación de la CNEF en el Uruguay [PDF]
, 2013 El artículo aborda desde un enfoque foucaultiano la discusión parlamentaria que antecede a la creación de la CNEF (Comisión Nacional de Educación Física) en el Uruguay.
Dogliotti, Paola
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany [PDF]
, 2002 We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s ...
Biewen, Martin, Jenkins, Stephen P.
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Reassessing Intergenerational Mobility in Germany and the United States: The Impact of Differences in Lifecycle Earnings Patterns [PDF]
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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Impact of newly constructed primary healthcare centres on antenatal care attendance, facility delivery and all-cause mortality: quasi-experimental evidence from Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, Côte d'Ivoire. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Koné S +5 more
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Estimating the returns to educational mismatch with panel data: the role of unobserved heterogeneity [PDF]
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel, this analysis suggests that the cross-sectional estimates of the returns to educational mismatch are significantly biased when unobserved heterogeneity is omitted in the wage equation.
Marco PECORARO
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Application of anti-fungal vaccines as a tool against emerging anti-fungal resistance. [PDF]
Front Fungal Biol, 2023 Kumar R, Srivastava V.
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Early Retirement and Inequality in Britain and Germany: How Important Is Health? [PDF]
Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in Britain, are much more concentrated in the lower income
Andrew M. Jones +2 more
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