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Unconditional and conditional quantile regressions are used to explore the determinants of labour earnings at different parts of the distribution and, hence, the determinants of overall labour earnings inequality. The analysis combines several household surveys to provide comparable estimates...
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In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...
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This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …
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income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy …. Drawing on empirical analysis of the links between structural policies and the distribution of labour income, the paper looks … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …
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disposable income and household consumption for Spain between 1985 and 2000. We look at both the Encuesta Continua de … earnings and household net disposable income has decreased substantially. The decreases in the tertiary education premium and … household consumption, inequality has fallen much less than inequality in household net disposable income, with the decrease …
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This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable heterogeneous-agent economies. We emphasize a trade-off in the welfare calculation that arises when labour supply is endogenous. On the one hand, as wage uncertainty rises, so does...
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This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …
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Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity and amplifies the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this effect, we analyze the earnings and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium...
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This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and...
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