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Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …

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Perceptions of risk : an experimental approach using internet questionnaires

Cowell, Frank; Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

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Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using …

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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia

Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...

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Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications

Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …

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Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses...

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Estimation of inequality indices

Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

Inequality measures are powerful tools of applied welfare analysis. However, to use the tools effectively one has to … statistical problems which are addressed here for both micro-data and group data. The theoretical properties of inequality …

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Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico. Revisiting the evidence

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

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Equivalence scales and inequality

Cowell, Frank; Mercader-Prats, Magda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

At the heart of any distributional analysis there is the problem of allowing for differences in people's non-income characteristics. We examine the role of standard equivalence scales in distributional comparisons and the welfare implications of the basis for constructing equivalence scales. We...

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We can work it out: the impact of technological change on the demand for low skill workers

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that we humans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects both the absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour. In...

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