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Competing with the Dragon : Employment and Wage Effects of Chinese Trade Competition in 17 Sectors Across 18 OECD Countries

Thewissen, Stefan - 2014

The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China's large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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Are immigrants paid less for education?

Anastassova, Lubomira - 2010

This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...

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Exploring the long term effects of educational policies on the income redistribution processes

Calero, Jorge - 2003

Public finance of post-compulsory education modifies substantially the supply of educational qualifications. Such modification has crucial implications for the long-term income distribution processes: in a context of sustained increases of demand for educational qualifications (brought about by...

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Brave new world? Value of education in post-socialist Poland

Aro, Mikko - 2004

The 'motivation' for this study is the change of the occupational structure and the subsequent increase in employment opportunities especially for white-collar professionals, whose situation was comparatively weak under socialist rule. In this paper, it is assumed that the situation of...

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The impact of educational attainment on labor market outcomes

Pai, Kalpana - 2008

are also able to analyze the gender difference in wages across these countries for low, medium, and high levels of …

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Modern Human Capital Analysis: Estimation of US, Canada and Italy Earning Functions

DiBartolo, Annamaria - 1999

The aim of this paper is not to supply a synthesis of the Chicago School human capital theory, but rather to define and analyze the earnings functions and their relations with the human capital concept. The earnings functions are an easy and flexible tool, for the analysis of the investments in...

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The impact of economic inequality and gender parity on educational assortative mating: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Monaghan, David - 2014

Though extensive research has described the prevalence of educational assortative mating, the causes of its variation across countries and over time is not well understood. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, I investigate the impact on marital sorting of both inequality...

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Sources of equality and inequality: Wages, jobs, households and redistribution

Kenworthy, Lane - 2008

What are the principal sources of posttax-posttransfer inequality in affluent countries? To what extent do inequality of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the posttaxposttransfer income distribution? And what do the answers...

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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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