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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Min … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2019
bill increases in response to leave take up, but this is driven entirely by wages paid to workers on leave for which firms …
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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012
Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013
Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...
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The distribution of earnings under monopsonistic/polistic competition
Thisse, Jacques-François; Toulemonde, Eric - 2010
rationalize this by assuming that diosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …
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The distribution of income in Central America
Gindling, Thomas; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2013
We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
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Occupational choice and matching in the labor market
Mak, Eric; Siow, Aloysius - 2017
Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model generates occupation earnings distributions which are right skewed, have firm fixed effects, and large changes in aggregate earnings inequality without significant changes in within...
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