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income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s …
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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …
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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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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …
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This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …
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are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry … into higher levels of democracy; but if we control for the previously achieved level of democracy, the income effect …
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Empirical studies of intertemporal dynamics of individual income, distribution of personal income, and growth and … distribution of national income are all based on statistics that rely on some concept of income. The dominant one today appears to … be the so-called Haig-Simons-Hicks (HSH) concept of income. I examine the foundations of this concept in Hicks's Value …
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The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between … driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The relationship between speed and income is found again in the empirical … speed on income, distance travelled and a number of controls. The results are clearly significant and indicate an average …
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