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important implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, and the existence of market power …. -- marginal productivity theory ; distribution of income ; robust statistics …
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The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
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Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that diosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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hand, inequality is boosted by CI especially when looking at the upper tail of the income distribution. As the German …
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Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
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sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly … spells of workers at the bottom of the distribution of younger cohorts contribute to explain 30 to 40 % of the overall …
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This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian …
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functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … noughties. In the Great Recession years of tense socioeconomic conditions, looking at income distribution through the lens of …
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Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
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