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Caribbean women are more likely than men to be unemployed, as evidenced by the economies studied here—Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. This paper uses aggregate data to explore macroeconomic factors that contribute to gender differentials in unemployment. National economic...
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One of the most interesting facts about the growth of developed nations, especially of the US growth, in the last three decades is significant growth of the ratio of the wage of skilled labor to that of unskilled labor. At the same time, existing evidence seems to suggest that the ratio of the...
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relationship between education mobility and inequality in educational attainment. This negative relationship between inequalities …
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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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capital falls in the diversified regime. Also, there exists constant level of between group income inequality in the imitation …-only and innovation-only regimes. However, wage and income inequality between skilled and unskilled human capital rises as an … economy bridges its gap from the world technology frontier. There exists constant level of income inequality within skilled …
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …
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sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an … and wealth, including land, industrial or financial capital) across individuals as well as between the private and the … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision …
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point we make two contributions. First we quantify the phenomena of poverty, richness, and inequality in housing comfort … mainly from complementary comfort and to a lesser extent from basic comfort items. Inequality in housing comfort, measured by …
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the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role …
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By drawing on neurological and psychological theories of learning, our study introduces a new conceptual framework to analyse the role learning plays in knowledge and skill acquisition. Learning is modelled through four mechanisms defined as individuals' participation in formal, non-formal, and...
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