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. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing, Electric Gas and Water … compare the wages of the outlined sectors with the wage structure of agriculture sector. The Split technique for means has … been deployed to interrogate the data and the propositions of this research. It is revealed in this paper that wages of all …
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-range occupations (clerks and production workers) declined relative to those at the bottom (interpersonal service workers). This U …
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preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower wages. Crowding of immigrants into select … occupations plays a minor role in explaining these impacts; occupations’ skill attributes explain the bulk. …
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apprehended. There is a shift of middle wage level jobs from regular to casual employment, leading to declining inequality among … casual workers and increased inequality among regulars. However, availability of mandays is decreasing, especially among … White collar and Blue Collar occupations are concerns that need to be addressed. Creating more mandays of work and …
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A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income … gets redistributed to the rich. This article looks at some reasons that income inequality could rise, and then explores …, and at evidence on whether workers real wages have been falling, or perhaps only manufacturing wages. It also examines …
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The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political … conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens …. This paper shows that Australia has experienced the opposite of a ‘wages breakout’ since 2000. Over this period Australian …
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Emigration leads to finite changes in structure of production and sectors vanish because they cannot pay higher wages … the existing results in the literature. In particular emigration can lead to a drastic change in the degree of inequality …
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In recent years, health care reforms and restrained budgets have risen concerns about accessibility to health services, even in countries with universal coverage health systems. Previous studies have explored the issue by using objective event-oriented measures such as those related to...
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Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not necessarily fair. The widening of wage differentials that is currently observed is interpreted in this manner: Skill-biased technological progress increases demand for skilled work...
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inequality. Established economics teaches us that for economic gaps to be bridged, a process of convergence sets in that was … of further regional income concentration and inequality, thus blocking the hopes of the poorer segments of the East …
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