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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy

Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019

Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...

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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We … means that for those wishing to study aspects of wage differentials and inequality in Russia, it may be feasible to use the …

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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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Status and income inequality in a knowledge economy

Peng, Baochun - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 581-595

sector and inequality of income rises with productivity. We show that the expected utility of all agents can fall while … for status and technology-induced rises in inequality. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?

Wolff, Edward; Gittleman, Maury - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 439-468

Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, about one fifth of American households at a given point of time reported a wealth transfer and these accounted for quite a sizeable figure, about a quarter of their net worth. Over...

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