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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868
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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484931
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475841
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Hours inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472299
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The economic effects of Covid-19 in Sweden : a report on income, taxes, distribution, and government support policies
Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023
This report analyses the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and support policies using underutilized data sources from the Swedish Tax Agency's tax register, which provides real-time information on firm sales and employees' wage income. Firms' sales, particularly in areas heavily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310061
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
imperfect substitution and skill biased technological change closes the gap between the Mincer equation and GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408972
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Offshoring and labour market inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190184
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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017
A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704691
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Finance, talent allocation, and growth
D'Acunto, Francesco; Frésard, Laurent - 2018
workers. Yet, the growing finance wage premium is unrelated to sectoral or aggregate growth, to countries' innovative capacity … economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794229