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in the probability of being employed within each occupation type and wages earned therein. Cohort plots and econometric … particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a …
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, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …
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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between trade and income. While most economists agree that increased trade … leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate … of the economy. Using a dynamic panel data model, the hypotheses of no long-run effects of trade on income and on income …
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This paper provides evidence that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K. rose sharply in the 1980s, continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s and has remained essentially unchanged since then. As in the U.S., increases in within-group inequality account for a substantial fraction...
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This paper documents that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially during the economic transition in Poland. One surprising result is that earnings inequality increased markedly in both the private and public sectors, indicating that even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved...
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage …
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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as … characteristics. Given that these vulnerable groups were positioned in the lower end of the income distribution before the crisis, we … hypothesize that income inequality likely has increased due to the pandemic. Policies aiming at reducing inequality in the labor …
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: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium …. Instead, high income inequality played a large role. This is because manufacturing job loss typically implies a move to the … increases with the overall level of income inequality in the country, conditional on moving down in the wage distribution. Based …
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This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...
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