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Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …
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decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent … direct effect of minimum wages on inequality was muted …
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In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross …-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and … exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation. A special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, which this paper …
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Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity – driven by circumstances at birth – has a negative effect on subsequent growth.Results are …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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