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How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country : Evidence from Thai Tax Returns

Muthitacharoen, Athiphat; Burong, Trongwut - 2023

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...

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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey

Kimhi, Ayal - 2004

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …

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The pain and gain of offshoring: The effects of tax progression in a segmented labour market

Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2012

Over the previous two decades, many OECD countries have lowered the degree of progressivity in their tax structures. In this paper, I investigate labour tax progression in a world characterised by a segmented labour market where the higher-paying jobs are rationed due to (i) oligopolistic market...

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Labour market institutions and the personal distribution of income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2005

We examine the determinants of differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. The Gini coefficient of personal incomes can be expressed as a function of the wage differential, the labour share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market...

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Managerial versus production wages: Offshoring, country size and endowments

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...

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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities : Evidence from US-Listed Companies

Souillard, Baptiste - 2022

Corporate tax avoidance has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. Yet, systematic evidence on this matter is still lacking. To fill this gap, the present paper explores the effect of profit shifting on employee pay among S&P 1500 companies. The study shows that its effect...

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Inequality and Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...

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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take … thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

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