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Wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Dalgıç, Başak; Güven, Aytekin - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over various socioeconomic groups such as gender, age, education and sector of … economic activity. We first present an overview of the evolution of wages and wage inequality over the period 2005-2011. Next …

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Smoothing the adjustment to trade liberalization

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2014

ensuing wage inequality. We consider several instruments of economic policy: a wage tax to redistribute income between skilled … and unskilled workers; sector-specific consumption taxes and profit taxes to affect inter-sectoral wage inequality; sector … reduce the wage inequality after trade liberalization are training subsidies. Although the policy also generates …

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Wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Dalgic, Basak; Guven, Aytekin - 2014

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Competing with the dragon : employment and wage effects of Chinese trade competition in 17 sectors across 18 OECD countries

Thewissen, Stefan; Vliet, Olaf van - 2014

The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China's large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy...

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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe

Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014

This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional - on technology - wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On...

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Market integration, wage concentration, and the cost and volume of traded machines

Edwards, Terence Huw; Perroni, Carlo - 2014

We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to imported varieties lowers the cost of intermediate inputs (“machines”) used to carry out production tasks, causing workers with different comparative abilities to be sorted...

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The performance pay premium : how big is it and does it affect wage dispersion?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - 2014

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Measuring the sorting effect of migration on spatial wage disparities

Nakajima, Kentaro; Okamoto, Ryosuke - 2014

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Wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Dalgıç, Başak - 2014

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The impact of outward FDI on the south korean labor market : evidence on the wages of four types of workers

Lee, Hongshik; Hongmin, Kim; Sim, Soonhyung - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 18 (2014) 1, pp. 29-54

-level effect, this paper examines whether OFDI attributes to the wage inequality among each type of workers. Moreover, this study …The purpose of this research is to identify the relation between OFDI (Outward Foreign Direct Investment) and wage … inequality. In order to analyze various effects of OFDI on wages depending on the types of workers, the research classified …

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