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Inequality and Mobility
Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …
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Inter-regional project : How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. T...
Chandoevwit, Worawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Thailand is a middle-income country with per capita income of 134,343 baht or US$3,887 in 2007.1 It was once an agrarian economy, but with the pace of development, its economy now relies more on industry and services. As a result, employment in these sectors has been increasing. With the move...
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Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Employment and Labour Market of Bangladesh A Preliminary Assessment
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; Hossain, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
ILOs initiative to assess the impact of the financial crisis on employment and labour market of South Asian economies and develop alternative policy responses to mitigate the adverse social effects of the crisis on the world of work, especially the vulnerable groups, is timely and addresses a...
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Heterogeneity in Returns to Work Experience : A Dynamic Model of Female Labor Force Participation
Yamada, Ken - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic self-selection into employment. Heterogeneity is incorporated into the model in a way that allows for the...
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Labor Supply Responses to the 1990s Japanese Tax Reforms
Yamada, Ken - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The consumption-leisure choice model implies that an exogenous change in tax rates will bring about a change in labor supply. This implication is expected to be important to labor supplied by secondary earners under a progressive tax system when spousal income alters effective marginal tax...
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Female Labour Migration in India : Insights From NSSO Data
Shanthi, K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The objective of this working paper is to examine the extent of employment oriented migration of females in India and the inter state variations in its magnitude using NSSO 55th Round Household level data on Migration . It is found that though the percentage is very small for employment oriented...
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Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
use real wages. To understand the implications of this finding for changes in well-being inequality I use a simple general … increase in well-being inequality even if the increase in real wage inequality is limited. Alternatively, it is possible that … that the increase in well-being inequality between 1980 and 2000 is smaller than the increase in nominal wage inequality. …
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Different from the majority of studies on this issue, we include controls for several household and...
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