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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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Covid-19 and working from home : toward a "new normal"?
Kosteas, Vasilios D.; Renna, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
during the first part of the pandemic. We also review the results of the literature on two important dimensions of inequality …: the gender wage gap and income inequality, Moreover, we review some evidence of the effect of WFH on worker's productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794555
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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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Monopolistic competition, optimum product diversity, and international trade : the role of factor endowment and factor intensities
Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021 - This draft August, 2021
-Stiglitz-Krugman model. Later we reflect on wage inequality and unemployment providing some interesting results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603414
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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
and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that … poverty and labour income inequality. We find an increase in poverty and labour income inequality in most of the LAC countries … inequality both between and within countries. Lastly, we show that most of the dispersion in the labour income loss across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500915
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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey
Duman, Anil - 2020
wage inequality is likely to deteriorate as a result of the supply shocks from confinement policies. However, the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244360
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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
labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297318
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Consumer loan response to permanent labor income shocks : evidence from a major minimum wage increase
Güney, Ethem; Hacihasanoglu, Yavuz Selim; Tumen, Semih - 2017
We investigate the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase, which became effective in January 2016, on consumer loans in Turkey. Using bank-level data and designing an original identification strategy, we ask whether the loans provided by banks with a historically high share of low-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112424
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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