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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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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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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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inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …
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This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and …, and institutional factors have played a significant role in the inequality trend. However, most of the trend is … variation across locations (states or cities) in the United States in the local level of "residual inequality." The evidence …
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We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the Scala Mobile (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large real wage increases at the bottom of the distribution and was essentially irrelevant for...
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claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic …
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on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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