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The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China

Xing, Chunbing - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive … tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation structural change is accompanying rising wage inequality. The wage … intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …

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Inequality in the developing world

Gradín, Carlos (ed.); Leibbrandt, Murray V. (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the … high inequality context and, with the changing global inequality situation as context, country chapters investigate the …

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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies

Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after...

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Income mobility in the developing world : recent approaches and evidence

Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020

This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier...

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Drivers of mobility

Piraino, Patrizio - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020

Empirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies. However, there have been relatively few advances in the identification of the drivers of such higher levels of intergenerational...

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Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations

Mani, Anandi; Riley, Emma - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

We review the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible ways-via access to opportunities for migration, credit, trading relationships, information on jobs, and new...

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Great Gatsby and the Global South : intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and development

Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2023

In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. This 'Element' surveys the area, conceptually and empirically.

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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades

Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023

It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...

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Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017

growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to … number of labour market indicators (twelve employment and earnings indicators and four poverty and inequality indicators) for …

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Lessons of the golden age of capitalism

Marglin, Stephen A. - 1988

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