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We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
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new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976 …
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general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the model's key parameters show that the rising management premium is …
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countries or individuals. A newer way is to utilize data on a panel of countries or a panel of people and assess the pattern of … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …
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in income inequality. An alternative is to assess patterns of panel income changes. We derive theoretical conditions … reconciling changes in inequality together with various measures of convergent/divergent panel income changes. For a large number … of inequality indices, as well as for Lorenz curves: we show that rising inequality can coexist with convergent panel …
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During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
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