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Distributional Effects of the Panama Canal Expansion
Bussolo, Maurizio; Hoyos, Rafael de; Medvedev, Denis - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2012)
disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …
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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation
Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Technology diffusion and its effects on social inequalities
Magalhães, Manuela; Hellström, Christian - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 37 (2013) C, pp. 299-313
trends in income inequality and labor and skills supplies observed in the United States between 1969 and 1996. The paper also …
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights...
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Mexico in the 1990s: the Main Cross-Sectional Facts
Binelli, Chiara; Attanasio, Orazio - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 13 (2010) 1, pp. 238-264
informality and in wage inequality. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality
Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014
cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group … inequality by showing that the top decile earners’ significant wage growth is underpinned by the link between ex ante ability …-group and general wage inequality is explained by math-biased technical change (MBTC). …
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The price of experience
Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012
We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, the large movements of the return to experience over the last four decades are almost perfectly...
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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
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