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regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
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Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in the financialisation process. This paper however shows that the cumulative effects on group earnings is a pattern visible across the labour force. The case studies on the US and...
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
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inequality among Italian employees. Specifically, a change from low to high WFH attitude would determine a 10% wage premium on …
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An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers …-driven growth leads to an increasing population share of college graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a declining …
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The reflections which follow build on two interrelated questions, namely, first, whether we are witnessing another "industrial revolution", and second, what is the impact of technological transformations upon the current dynamics of the socio-economic fabric, especially with respect to...
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Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that features two skill types of workers and includes automation capital as an additional production factor. Automation capital is a perfect substitute for low-skilled workers and...
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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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