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The Chilean Labor Market: Job Creation, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Future Challenges

Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

unemployment insurance. We show that a combination of economic growth and specific policies seems to be the driving force behind …

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A Decade of Economics Reforms: Whither Employment?

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period. The workforce structure is exhibiting upward mobility across wage classes, moving towards regular employment, and...

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

structurally distorted in the institutions and policies of American industrial relations. The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the …

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Disparity in the structure of wages in Pakistan

Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Perpetual Disparities in all norms of lives are one of those essences of Pakistan which have been like a ghost that always exploits to its victims. This paper investigates and identifies the Disparities in the wage Structure of Pakistan. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...

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Transitioning Democracies are a Risky Business in the South

Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper finds that trade is insignificant in explaining income inequality. The results also suggest institutions are … for some institutions like rule of law when the sample is restricted to developing countries. However, for other … institutions like democracy and autocracy, the author finds that former is positively related with inequality and later is …

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Good versus Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare

Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on income inequalities are insignificant. Though...

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Inequality, extractive institutions, and growth in nondemocratic regimes

Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Naito, Katsuyuki; Okazawa, Ryosuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

inequality leads to extractive institutions and impedes investment and growth. These results provide an explanation for the … inequality and quality of institutions. …

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Inequality and the Political Economy of Eurosclerosis

Krugman, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Before the early 1970s generous welfare states seemed to be consistent with high employment. Since then, there has been growing concern over disincentive effects of social insurance. This paper suggests that the problem may have arisen in part because European nations were in effect trying to...

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