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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...

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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005

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Low-wage employment in Portugal: a mixed logit approach

Barros, Carlos; Proenca, Isabel; Vieira, Jose Cabral - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we examine the determinants of low-wage employment in Portugal. For this purpose, we use a data file of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for the years 1998 and 1999. In order to take into account unobserved heterogeneity in the data, a random-parameter logit model is...

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Monotonicity and the Roy Model

Chevalier, Arnaud; Lanot, Gauthier - EconWPA - 2002

In this note we study the implications on a bivariate normal Roy Model of two sets of monotonicity hypotheses proposed recently by Manski and Pepper (2000). In that simple context, we show that these hypotheses imply strong restrictions on the correlations structure between the decision and the...

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An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

Guvenen, Fatih - EconWPA - 2005

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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace

Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

reciprocity and individual wages. However, the direction of causality is unclear. Various aspects of the distribution of the … reciprocity have a positive effect on wages, while the spread in the distribution (standard deviation) has a strong significant …

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Who bear the burden of wage cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s

Böckerman, Petri; Laaksonen, Seppo; Vainiomäki, Jari - EconWPA - 2005

. Declines in wages have also been more common in small plants. In addition, there is an important transitory component in wage …

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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000

This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

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