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When supply meets demand: wage inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong … increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at … the core of this evolution. Since 1995, lower-tail inequality decreased, while upper-tail inequality increased at a slower …
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Educational self-selection, tasks assignment and rising wage inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2007
and high-school graduates, ii) the rise in the college-premium, iii) the rise in within wage inequality iv) the … differential behavior of the between and within wage inequality in the 60s and 70s and, v) the decline of the wage at the first …
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The assignment of workers to tasks, wage distribution and technical change: a critical review
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2008
are shown to produce different wage distributions and wage inequality. These models are useful to evaluate the general … production function of worker-task pairs lead to rising wage inequality. …
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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...
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Strike three: umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
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Entrepreneurship
Laezar, Edward P. - In: Journal of labor economics 23 (2005) 4, pp. 649-680
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The effects of cognitive and noncognitive abilities on labor market outcomes and social behavior
Heckman, James J.; Stixrud, Jora; Urzua, Sergio - In: Journal of labor economics 24 (2006) 3, pp. 411-482
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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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