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imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …
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This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. Several studies have used data sets that collect intergenerational socio economic information. The data, though limited, suggest that social mobility is low in the region, even when compared with low social mobility developed...
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The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programmes. We argue that the heart of...
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and fi…nd strong evidence of smoothing of male’s and female’s permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets …
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While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies do and do not promote equality, much less is known regarding why these policies are adopted to varying degrees of intensity in different times and places. To explain this...
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This paper uses establishment level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) to examine the effects of new technology on pay. The wage differential associated with new technology is about 5-7% and is (i) robust to corrections for skill, workplace disamenities, and...
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analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …
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