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From the shortage of jobs to the shortage of skilled workers: labor markets in the EU new member states

Rutkowski, Jan - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994...

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in … these shocks and countryspecific institutions are responsible for the diverging inequality patterns. The paper suggests a … to be responsible for the divergent developments in inequality. …

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008

Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...

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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: evidence from quantile regression decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - 2008

most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban …

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The emerging aversion to inequality: evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005

Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - 2008

This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and … institute (CBOS) from 1992 to 2005, we identify a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and subjective … well-being. The downturn in the tolerance for inequality (1997) coincides with increasing distrust of political elites. …

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Inequality and volatility moderation in Russia: evidence from micro-level panel data on consumption and income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova; … - 2009

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality …

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