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The forest behind the tree : heterogeneity in how US governor's party affects black workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
Income inequality is a distributional phenomenon. This paper examines the impact of U.S governor's party allegiance … (Republican vs Democrat) on ethnic wage gap. A descriptive analysis of the distribution of yearly earnings of Whites and Blacks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627858
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What drives employment-unemployment transitions? : evidence from Italian task-based data
Cassandra, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; … - 2020
. Finally, the distribution of unemployment risk and its relation with routine-task intensity varies significantly across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222099
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Commuting patterns, the spatial distribution of jobs and the gender pay gap in the U. S.
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they bear a disproportionate share of housework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156985
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Peer interactions, local markets, and wages : evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Irene; Intraligi, Valerio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution of occupations with a high content of peer … distribution of jobs intensive in peer-interactions is further measured according to the occupational structure of Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542014
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Exploring the spillover effects of internally displaced settlements on the wellbeing of children of the locales
Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024
This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465495
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140102
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From elitist to sustainable earnings : is there a group legitimacy in financial flows?
Charles, Aurelie; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131567
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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2021 - Current version: April 15, 2021
poverty and labour income inequality. We find an increase in poverty and labour income inequality in most of the LAC countries …This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty … and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500915
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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2020
and examine changes in poverty and labour income inequality. We find an increase in poverty and labour income inequality in … poverty index is 1.4 pp and the highest increase in the Gini coefficient is 2 pp. Decomposing overall labour income inequality …This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297318