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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of...

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129

Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2013

important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …

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Financial Literacy and Political Orientation in Great Britain

Montagnoli, Alberto; Moro, Mirko; Panos, Georgios A.; … - 2016

This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and political orientation in Great Britain. Using novel data from the British Election Survey in 2014, we employ two distinct measures of political orientation, capturing individual self-assessment on a left-right axis and party...

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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 2018

Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the … been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment …

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Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data

Bachmann, Ronald; Cim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018

The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be...

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When supply meets demand: wage inequality in Portugal

Centeno, Mário; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009

. Polarization of employment demand is the more credible explanation for the more recent evolution. As in other developed economies …

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Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

, which is evidence for polarization in the U.S. labor market. In contrast, we find little evidence for wage polarization in ….S. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. We conclude that although there is evidence … in both the U.S. and Germany which is consistent with a technology-driven polarization of the labor market, the patterns …

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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