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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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This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …
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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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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …
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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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In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) How binding are minimum wage floors in different countries?; (iii) To what extent do minimum wages...
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