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negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …
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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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employment rates. Up-skilling provided a sizable counterweight to the increase in earnings inequality resulting from …
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characteristics or employment. I also find striking variations across countries in the effect of single motherhood on income at … employment and social policies may play in driving cross-country differences in the income gradient associated with single …
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In this paper we assess the current relevance of Ricardian theory. Relative prices, labor costs, and productivity are evaluated as determinants of a country's international competitiveness at the industry level. Working with detailed data on unit values and with industry data on productivity, we...
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as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life. Using surveys from five countries (the USA, Australia, Germany …
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When incorporating differences in household characteristics, the choice of equivalence scale can affect the ranking of income distributions. An alternative approach was pioneered by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (G.R. Feiwel (Ed.), Arrow and the Foundation of the Theory of Economic Policy,...
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explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France … persuasive evidence that attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper therefore asks …) female, and total, employment rate. In every case, measured trans-Atlantic differences in the inequality of money income …
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This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...
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We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches...
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