Cecilia Garcia‐Penalosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Garcia‐Penalosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia‐Penalosa |
| SIGNATURE | PENALOSA C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6830-898X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Interactions among gender norms
A considerable body of work has shown that motherhood is accompanied by a reduction in labor market participation and hours of market work, while more recent findings indicate that women who earn more than their husbands tend to subsequently take actions that reduce their market income. Both patterns of behavior have been interpreted as women trying to conform to child‐rearing norms and to the prescription that the husband should be the main brea…
Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts
Introduction March 2021 issue
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth
A large literature characterises urbanisation as resulting from productivity growth attracting rural workers to cities. Incorporating economic geography elements into a growth model, we suggest that causation runs the other way: when rural workers move to cities, the resulting urbanisation produces technological change and productivity growth. Urban density leads to knowledge exchange and innovation, thus creating a positive feedback loop between…
Inequality in Macroeconomic Models
Les inégalités dans les modèles macroéconomiques
Cet article s’intéresse aux inégalités de répartition des salaires et du patrimoine comme programme de recherche macroéconomique. Après un bref aperçu des modèles récents liant inégalités et croissance à long terme d’une part, et inégalités et fluctuations macroéconomiques d’autre part, nous passons en revue la littérature sur les facteurs macroéconomiques à l’origine des inégalités de répartition des salaires et du patrimoine. En guise de conclu…
Top incomes, wealth and inheritance
The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment
Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality
Earnings are the product of wages and hours of work; hence, the dispersion of hours can magnify or dampen a given distribution of wages. This paper examines how earnings inequality is affected by the dispersion of working hours using data for the USA, the UK, Germany, and France over the period 1989–2012. We find that hours dispersion can account for over a third of earnings inequality in some countries and that its contribution has been growing …
Why Are Women Less Democratic Than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Le monde universitaire, un laboratoire d'analyse des différences d'avancement de carrière des hommes et des femmes
En se concentrant sur le milieu académique français, les auteurs cherchent à expliquer la sous-représentation des femmes dans les postes se situant au sommet de la hiérarchie. Trois hypothèses sont testées : la discrimination à l’encontre des femmes dans le processus de promotion, les différences de comportement en situation de compétition et les moindres performances des femmes aux épreuves de concours. Les auteurs exploitent une base de données…
Gender and Competition
Political versus economic institutions in the growth process
Une analyse microéconomique du gage patrimonial dans l'aide aux personnes dépendantes
Cet article étudie les tenants d’une possible réforme de l’allocation personnalisée d’autonomie ( apa ), réforme qui viserait à récupérer sur la succession une partie des fonds versés aux personnes dépendantes. Dans ce but, nous développons un modèle théorique de transfert intergénérationnel en individualisant les décisions des deux membres d’une famille, un parent dépendant et un enfant aidant informel potentiel. Le parent décide du niveau d’aid…
Political Versus Economic Institutions in the Growth Process
Income distribution, economic growth and European integration
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
The Dynamics of Wealth Inequality in a Simple Ramsey Model
It has been shown that the Ramsey growth model with agents that differ in their initial wealth endowments is compatible with a wide range of distributional outcomes, yet it is difficult to characterize under which circumstances the distribution of wealth becomes more or less unequal. In this note, we characterize the steady state distribution of wealth and compare it to the initial distribution, obtaining analytical conditions for one to be more …
Education, corruption, and the distribution of income
On Gender Gaps and Self-Fulfilling Expectations
Redistribution and entrepreneurship with Schumpeterian growth
Labour market institutions and income inequality
Labour market institutions are a crucial determinant of wage inequality, the wage share in aggregate income, and the unemployment rate. Since these variables affect, in turn, the distribution of income across households, the question arises of whether stronger labour market institutions have an impact on income inequality. Institutions can in principle have conflicting effects. For example, a higher unemployment benefit tends to increase the wage…
Endogenous Strength of Intellectual Property Rights
The personal and the factor distributions of income in a cross-section of countries
The shares of capital and labour in national income vary substantially both over time and across countries. This paper shows that the factor distribution of income is an essential determinant of the personal distribution of income. We use cross-country and panel data for a group of developed and developing countries to show that a larger labour share is associated with a lower Gini coefficient of personal incomes. This effect is not only statisti…
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
Status Effects and Negative Utility Growth
This paper explains the observed stagnation of ‘happiness' measures through a growth model in which agents care about conspicuous consumption. ‘Normal goods’ confer direct utility, while ‘status goods’ confer utility only at the expense of others. Firms can improve the quality of both goods through R&D. The Nash equilibrium of the consumer game results in the share of expenditure on status goods increasing with the number of times the status good…
Why Are Women Less Democratic Than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Inequality and growth
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth
A large literature characterises urbanisation as resulting from productivity growth attracting rural workers to cities. Incorporating economic geography elements into a growth model, we suggest that causation runs the other way: when rural workers move to cities, the resulting urbanisation produces technological change and productivity growth. Urban density leads to knowledge exchange and innovation, thus creating a positive feedback loop between…
Le monde universitaire, un laboratoire d'analyse des différences d'avancement de carrière des hommes et des femmes
En se concentrant sur le milieu académique français, les auteurs cherchent à expliquer la sous-représentation des femmes dans les postes se situant au sommet de la hiérarchie. Trois hypothèses sont testées : la discrimination à l’encontre des femmes dans le processus de promotion, les différences de comportement en situation de compétition et les moindres performances des femmes aux épreuves de concours. Les auteurs exploitent une base de données…
Une analyse microéconomique du gage patrimonial dans l'aide aux personnes dépendantes
Cet article étudie les tenants d’une possible réforme de l’allocation personnalisée d’autonomie ( apa ), réforme qui viserait à récupérer sur la succession une partie des fonds versés aux personnes dépendantes. Dans ce but, nous développons un modèle théorique de transfert intergénérationnel en individualisant les décisions des deux membres d’une famille, un parent dépendant et un enfant aidant informel potentiel. Le parent décide du niveau d’aid…
Income distribution, economic growth and European integration
Production risk and the functional distribution of income in a developing economy
Inequality and Economic Growth
We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions. The first part of the survey examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when capital markets are imperfect, there is not necessarily a trade-off between equity and efficiency. It therefore provides an explanation for two recent empirical findings, namely, the negative impact of inequality and the positive effect of redistribution upon growth. Th…
Inequality and Growth
Inequality and growth
Status Effects and Negative Utility Growth
This paper explains the observed stagnation of ‘happiness' measures through a growth model in which agents care about conspicuous consumption. ‘Normal goods’ confer direct utility, while ‘status goods’ confer utility only at the expense of others. Firms can improve the quality of both goods through R&D. The Nash equilibrium of the consumer game results in the share of expenditure on status goods increasing with the number of times the status good…
Risk aversion and rising wage inequality
Bayesian Learning and Gender Segregation
We present an explanation for the persistence of gender segregation in occupations and for the observed cross‐country differences in its extent. Agents have imperfect information about their probability of success in different occupations and base their career choices on prior beliefs about these probabilities. Beliefs are updated according to Bayes's rule, implying that past differences in preferences over occupations across genders affect the b…
Risk and the distribution of human capital
Redistribution and Occupational Choice in a Schumpeterian Growth Model
Production risk and the functional distribution of income in a developing economy
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Volatility
We explore the impact of macroeconomic volatility on the distribution of income. Using a cross‐section of developed and developing countries, we find that greater output volatility, defined as the standard deviation of the rate of output growth, is associated with a higher Gini coefficient and income share of the top quintile. The coefficients suggest that a strong effect on inequality resulting from a reduction in volatility: the Gini coefficien…
Endogenous Strength of Intellectual Property Rights
The personal and the factor distributions of income in a cross-section of countries
The shares of capital and labour in national income vary substantially both over time and across countries. This paper shows that the factor distribution of income is an essential determinant of the personal distribution of income. We use cross-country and panel data for a group of developed and developing countries to show that a larger labour share is associated with a lower Gini coefficient of personal incomes. This effect is not only statisti…
Endogenous strength of intellectual property rights
Growth, Income Inequality, and Fiscal Policy
We develop an endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply, in which agents differ in their initial endowments of physical capital. In this context, the growth rate and the distribution of income are jointly determined. We then examine the distributional impact of different ways of financing an investment subsidy. Policies aimed at increasing the growth rate result in a more unequal distribution of pre‐tax income, consistent with the positiv…
Distributional dynamics in a neoclassical growth model
On Gender Gaps and Self-Fulfilling Expectations
Redistribution and entrepreneurship with Schumpeterian growth
Labour market institutions and income inequality
Labour market institutions are a crucial determinant of wage inequality, the wage share in aggregate income, and the unemployment rate. Since these variables affect, in turn, the distribution of income across households, the question arises of whether stronger labour market institutions have an impact on income inequality. Institutions can in principle have conflicting effects. For example, a higher unemployment benefit tends to increase the wage…
The Dynamics of Wealth Inequality in a Simple Ramsey Model
It has been shown that the Ramsey growth model with agents that differ in their initial wealth endowments is compatible with a wide range of distributional outcomes, yet it is difficult to characterize under which circumstances the distribution of wealth becomes more or less unequal. In this note, we characterize the steady state distribution of wealth and compare it to the initial distribution, obtaining analytical conditions for one to be more …
Education, corruption, and the distribution of income
Income distribution, economic growth and European integration
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
Political Versus Economic Institutions in the Growth Process
Une analyse microéconomique du gage patrimonial dans l'aide aux personnes dépendantes
Cet article étudie les tenants d’une possible réforme de l’allocation personnalisée d’autonomie ( apa ), réforme qui viserait à récupérer sur la succession une partie des fonds versés aux personnes dépendantes. Dans ce but, nous développons un modèle théorique de transfert intergénérationnel en individualisant les décisions des deux membres d’une famille, un parent dépendant et un enfant aidant informel potentiel. Le parent décide du niveau d’aid…
Economics (35 works) · Inequality (18 works) · Labour economics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (13 works) · Economic inequality (12 works) · Economic theories and models (12 works) · Macroeconomics (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economic growth (11 works)