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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxesand benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers

Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020

skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from …

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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

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The changing nature of gender selection into employment : Europe over the Great Recession

Dolado, Juan J.; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Tarasonis, … - 2017

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...

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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities

Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among … inequality across generations, and particularly how this can enhance the understanding of transmission mechanisms beyond the …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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Unobserved worker quality and inter-industry wage differentials

Ge, Suqin; Macieira, João - 2020

This study quantitatively assesses two alternative explanations for inter-industry wage differentials: worker heterogeneity in the formof unobserved quality and firmheterogeneity in the form of a firm's willingness to pay (WTP) for workers' productive attributes. We develop an empirical hedonic...

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Labor supply and the business cycle : the "Bandwagon Worker Effect"

Román, Ángel L. Martín; Cuéllar-Martín, Jaime; … - 2018

The relationship between the labor force participation and the business cycle has become a topic in the economic literature. However, few studies have considered whether the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation is influenced by "social effects". In this paper, we construct a...

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Testing for asymmetric employer learning and statistical discrimination

Ge, Suqin; Moro, Andrea; Zhu, Beibei - 2020

We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...

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The heterogeneity of Okun's law : a metaregression analysis

Porras-Arena, M. Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2022

Okun's law is an extremely influential parameter in empirical research and policy analysis, based on the sizable number of estimates from this perspective. Nevertheless, it is also subject to considerable heterogeneity. We first show graphical and statistical evidence on the existence of a high...

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