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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008

Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...

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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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