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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity

Kanbur, Ravi; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

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Community and Class Antagonism

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...

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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

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How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?

Kanbur, Ravi; Wagstaff, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors like health and education. Indeed, it is argued that one …

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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Revolution, Reform and Openness

Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Regional inequality in China in 1999 exceeds the level experienced at its peak in the Cultural …

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The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform.

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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