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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
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Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...
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, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market … trend. It is presence of phase of earnings accumulation. Such accumulation is possible only during periods of significant … outstripping of earnings growth over the market growth. Now there is no phase of earnings accumulation, because market returned to …
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firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect …
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aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …
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penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
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The effect of initial income inequality on growth is the subject of a large literature. We show, both analytically and … with simulation experiments, that the same level of initial income inequality can be associated with very different income … developments, depending on the source of the inequality. We consider three sources: differences in asset ownership, in productivity …
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This article uses data from the 1998 European Union Household Panel to study economic inequality in Spain. It reports … data on the Spanish distributions of income, labor income, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such … Spanish households. We find that income, earnings, and, very especially, capital income are very unequally in Spain. …
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This paper uses census data to identify the main changes in the individual-level income distribution of working-aged Mâori between 1991 and 2001, and to analyse the effects of changes in the distribution of socio-demographic attributes and labour market activity patterns on the Mâori income...
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