The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data
We use detailed information from social security records to document the evolution of male earnings inequality and employment in Spain from 1988 to 2010. We find that inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, experienced a substantial decrease during the 1997–2...
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| Volume: | 127 |
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| Main Author: |
Bonhomme, Stéphane
Hospido, Laura |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Trade Academic |
| Place of publication: |
OXFORD OXFORD UNIV PRESS 01.08.2017 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | The Economic journal (London) Vol. 127; no. 603; pp. 1244 - 1278 |
| Data of publication: | August 2017 |
| ISSN: |
0013-0133 1468-0297 |
| EISSN: |
1468-0297 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
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We thank Jorge de la Roca for his help with the data in early stages of this project. We also thank Samuel Bentolila, David Dorn, Cristina Fernández, Luis Garicano, Aitor Lacuesta, Gerard Llobet, Claudio Michelacci, Josep Pijoan‐Mas, Diego Puga, Ernesto Villanueva, Ken Yamada, two anonymous referees, the editor of the article and seminar participants at various places for useful comments. Support from the European Research Council/ ERC grant agreement no. 0263107 is gratefully acknowledged. All remaining errors are our own. Data sets and programmes are available online to any researcher for purposes of replication. The opinions and analyses are the responsibility of the authors and, therefore, do not necessarily coincide with those of the Bank of Spain or the Eurosystem. |
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| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |