Arbeitspapier
Earnings inequality
Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature, mainly in public and in labor economics. We summarize these strands with a special focus on earnings which itself is the product of hourly wages and labor supply in terms of hours and weeks worked. In addition to inequality in labor market outcomes, we additionally pay special attention to equality of opportunity.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 89
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Factor Income Distribution
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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earnings inequality
wages
labor supply
equality of opportunity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Peichl, Andreas
Pestel, Nico
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Peichl, Andreas
- Pestel, Nico
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
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