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Increasing Income Inequality : Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Frederiksen, Anders - 2010

productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employeesﾒ relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …

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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality : Insights from Studies on Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2016

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … and used these inputs to estimate the short-run and long-run relationship between labor market flows, labor productivity …

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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Cunha, Flavio - 2009

Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. Inequalities in family environments and investments in children are substantial....

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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

Bossler, Mario - 2020

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased during the first years of this period, it recently returned to its initial level, raising the question what the role of the German minimum wage introduction for this reversal...

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Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Haan, Peter - 2018

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle...

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How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Barth, Erling - 2020

Using novel matched employer-employee register data with firm-level information on the introduction of industrial robots, this paper analysis the impact of robots on the wages of workers in the manufacturing sector. The results show that industrial robots increase wages for high-skilled workers...

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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Apps, Patricia F. - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...

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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

Gans, Joshua S. - 2019

Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …

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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis

Guzi, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US : Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply

Molina, Jose Alberto - 2018

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a sharing rule for non-labor income. Using the...

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