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Income Mobility

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state. If labour supply elasticities are large, the burden of financing the model can be large even if, arguably, the practice of providing subsidised goods that support labour supply is likely to mitigate these effects. We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, including the four major Nordic countries, ...

Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of social inequality than the traditional ...

The Joint Distribution of Household Income and Wealth. Evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study

The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

Do the Elderly Reduce Housing Equity? An International Comparison

Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Comparative Analysis of Family Benefits in Germany, Belgium, France, Great-Britain and Luxembourg

Estimating the demand for health care with panel data: a semiparametric Bayesian approach

The Causal Effect of Overqualification on Earnings: Evidence from a Bayesian Approach