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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
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Different paths? : human capital prices, wages, and inequality in Canada and the United States
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris; Liu, Haoming - In: Journal of labor economics 37 (2019), pp. 689-734
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Youth unemployment in Europe and the United States
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other … are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called non-cognitive skills in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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The economics of language: an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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The upside potential of hiring risky workers : evidence from the baseball industry
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - In: Journal of labor economics 21 (2003) 4, pp. 923-944
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