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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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The Macroeconomics of Model T

Foellmi, Reto; Wuergler, Tobias; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

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Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth

Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper analyses the impact of inequality on growth when technical progress is driven by innovations. It is assumed … that consumers have hierarchic preferences. As a result inequality affects demand and therefore the incentive to innovate …. Whether more inequality is harmful or beneficial for growth depends on the initial distribution. Complementarities between a …

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Innovation and Growth with Rich and Poor Consumers

Brunner, Johann K; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activity in a model where innovations …

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Income Distribution and Demand-Induced Innovations

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We utilize Schmookler’s (1966) concept of demand-induced invention to study the role of income inequality in an … distribution of income affects the incentive to innovate and hence long-run growth. In general, less inequality tends to discourage …

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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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Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon whether immigrants and natives act as substitutes or complements. In the first part of the study...

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East European Trade and the Austrian Labour Market

Aiginger, Karl; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Recent years have seen a major structural break in trade relations between West European countries and the former Eastern bloc. Austria experienced a disproportionately large bilateral trade creation with these countries. In this paper we take a closer look at the impact this trade growth has...

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