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Product market competition, returns to skill and wage inequality

Guadalupe, Maria (contributor) - 2005

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...

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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; … - 2020

Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise...

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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...

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Health and income : a robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - 2009

approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … ; taxation ; Australia ; Canada ; New Zealand ; United Kingdom ; United States …

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Top incomes in Canada : evidence from the Census

Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2015

This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada. …

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