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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Assortative Matching between workers and firms provides evidence of the complementarities or substitutes in production. The presence of complementarities is important for policies that aim to achieve the optimal allocation of resources, for example unemployment insurance. We argue that using...
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Jobs, workers and changes in earnings dispersion
Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia; Stevens, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
The ''fractal'' nature of the rise in earnings dispersion is one of its key features and remains a puzzle. In this paper, we offer a new perspective on the causes of changes in earnings dispersion, focusing on the role of labour reallocation. Once we drop the assumption that all firms pay a...
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A cautionary note on using industry affiliation to predict income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
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The Effect of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution.
Neumark, D.; Schweitzer, M.; Wascher, W. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper provides evidence on a wide set of margins along which labor markets can adjust in response to increases in the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income, representing the central margins of adjustment that impact the economic well-being of workers...
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Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745031
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Inflation, inequality and social conflict
Crowe, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …
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On the performance of social benefit systems
Schluter, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …
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Social housing and social exclusion 2000-2011
Tunstall, Rebecca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and...
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Roads to equality: wealth distribution dynamics with public-private capital complementarity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …
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