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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
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outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …
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fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …
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high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men's employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …
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nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …
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This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … inequalities in vulnerable employment. Conditional on individual and household characteristics, women are 7 percentage points more … likely to be in vulnerable employment than men. The experiences of marriage and parenthood are important drivers of this …
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Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend …
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