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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451098
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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia
Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024
of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470410
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361496
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Labour market counter-reforms in OECD countries : conditional impact on output and employment growth
Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; Haan, Jakob de - 2024
This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578524
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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002
The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410420
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Immobile Australia : surnames show strong status persistence, 1870-2017
Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017
The paper paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870-2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The … are low. Despite evidence on conventional measures that Australia has higher rates of social mobility than the UK or USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721622
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Growth of income and welfare in the U.S. 1979-2011
Komlos, John - 2016
We estimate growth rates of real incomes in the U.S. by quintiles using the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) post-tax, post-transfer data as basis for the period 1979-2011. We improve upon them by including only the present value of earnings that will accrue in retirement and excluding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458031
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Richer or more numerous or both? : the role of population and economic growth for top income shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939792
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Employment growth, inflation and output growth : was Phillips right? ; evidence from a dynamic panel
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Škare, Marinko - 2011
In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162091
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When unemployment disappears : Ireland in the 1990s
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2003
the indicators suggest that full employment was achieved. The primary reason for this employment miracle was the output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514165