Decomposing Income Polarization and Tax-Benefit Changes Across 31 European Countries and Europe Wide, 2004-2012

Wang, Jinxian; Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen

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“…And certainly, in the EU-15, inequality increased in some countries and decreased in some others; since these changes compensated each other, the overall Gini index remained quite steady. Not only do Eurostat data raise doubts on the presumed increase of inequality in Europe, but also data from other sources (the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the OECD, the World Income Inequality Database (WIID), and the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED)) hardly support the view of inequality having increased in the EU-15 in the last decades, be it that inequality is calculated as the average of single country scores (Thewissen et al 2015;Nolan et al 2014;Ballarino et al 2012), be it that it is directly estimated for a set of several countries taken as a whole (Darvas 2016;Troitiño 2007;Brandolini and Smeeding 2007;Salverda 2015;Bonesmo 2012;Bönke and Schröder 2015;Wang et al 2015).…”

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“…2012), be it that it is directly estimated for a set of several countries taken as a whole (Darvas 2016; Troitiño 2007; Brandolini and Smeeding 2007; Salverda 2015; Bonesmo 2012; Bönke and Schröder 2015; Wang et al . 2015).…”

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“…(1) 2000 figures from Brandolini (2007); 2005, 2012 figures from Wang et al (2015). (2) Source: Salverda (2015), from OECD-IDD data.(3) Source: OECD (2015), In it together , Annex, Inequality Indicators.…”

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On the Squeezing of the Middle Class: Overview and Prospects for the EU-15

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Carabaña

2020

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This article was inspired by Atkinson and Brandolini’s work on the economic middle classes and deals with the evolution of the income share of the middle class compared with that of the extreme classes in the EU-15 (the EU’s first 15 member states) over the last two decades. Our research draws on the paradox of the EU officially assuming dominant ideas about rising inequalities and the squeezing of middle-class income produced by globalization and technological change while at the same time producing and disseminating empirical evidence contrary to this view. We first synthesize this evidence, also contributing some additional analyses of Eurostat data, confirming that the income share of the middle class has not changed in the past two decades, as could be expected from the invariance in income inequality. We finally put forward some considerations about the theoretical implications of these empirical results and the interaction between ideas and empirical evidence in political societies and organizations.

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2020

European Review

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“…Following Autor and Acemoglu (2011), scholars have investigated how routine and non-routine tasks react to changes in production as a result of ongoing automatization. For instance, empirical studies show that the share of jobs with non-routine work increased, while with routine work -decreased in the past decades in the USA (Michaels et al, 2014;Autor, 2015), Germany (Dustmann et al, 2009), Denmark (Terzidis et al, 2017), Australia (Coelli, Borland, 2016), Canada (Green, Sand, 2015), Japan, and selected groups of high-income countries (Wang et al, 2015;Goos et al, 2009;Terzidis et al, 2017, p. 5).…”

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Postrzeganie automatyzacji procesów pracy a oczekiwania płacowe. Badanie wśród studentów Krakowa

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Jabłoński

2020

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Automatyzacja procesów pracy jest dynamicznie rozwijającym się zjawiskiem wpływającym na procesy społeczno-gospodarcze w ramach: sektorów gospodarki, innowacji produktowych i procesowych, modeli biznesowych oraz struktur przedsiębiorstw. Dynamicznie rozwija się również w obszarze centrów usług wspólnych. W artykule zbadano, czy ryzyko automatyzacji zawodów przypisanych do poszczególnych kierunków studiów jest dostrzegane przez przyszłych uczestników rynku pracy i znajduje odzwierciedlenie w ich oczekiwaniach płacowych. Badania przeprowadzono wśród studentów uczelni wyższych i innych krakowskich uczelni. Badanie opiera się na pierwotnych i wtórnych źródłach danych. Pierwsze z nich to badanie przeprowadzone na przełomie 2018 i 2019 roku na próbie studentów reprezentujących 46 kierunków studiów w Krakowie (n = 1180). Drugie źródło danych to dane pozyskane z bazy danych ELA, ogólnokrajowego systemu śledzenia karier absolwentów szkół wyższych w Polsce. Przeprowadzone badania wykazały, że studenci zwykle wiążą swoje oczekiwania z wynagrodzeniem obserwowanym wśród absolwentów ich kierunku. Średnio studenci, których realne perspektywy zarobków są wyższe, mają wyższe oczekiwania płacowe. Badanie ujawniło nadmierny optymizm, choć utrzymujący się we wszystkich podgrupach, jest mniejszy w przypadku studentów, którzy są narażeni na większe ryzyko automatyzacji pracy. Dodatkowo studenci, którzy są narażeni na największe ryzyko automatyzacji swojej pracy, zwykle formułują najmniejsze względne oczekiwania płacowe. Ponadto, negatywne postrzeganie automatyzacji prowadzi do niższych względnych oczekiwań płacowych.

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Health polarization and inequalities across Europe: an empirical approach

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This paper examines inequality and polarization in self-assessed health, contributing towards the limited research existing on health economics. We use data from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) to investigate the relationship between health inequality and polarization across 27 European countries in two periods: 2006-2009 and 2013-2015. As our key variable is of an ordinal nature, we employ median based measures. Our empirical results suggest that Greece is the country with the highest level of health polarization in both periods, whereas Ireland has the lowest one when we consider countries where the median category is "very good", coinciding with the findings obtained in the inequality index. Estonia, Hungary and Lithuania have the highest degree of health polarization in both periods while Malta, The Netherlands and Spain are the countries with the lowest when we focus on those countries whose median category is "good" health.

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Decomposing Income Polarization and Tax-Benefit Changes Across 31 European Countries and Europe Wide, 2004-2012

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

On the Squeezing of the Middle Class: Overview and Prospects for the EU-15

On the Squeezing of the Middle Class: Overview and Prospects for the EU-15

Postrzeganie automatyzacji procesów pracy a oczekiwania płacowe. Badanie wśród studentów Krakowa

Health polarization and inequalities across Europe: an empirical approach

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