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De-routinization of jobs and polarization of earnings : evidence from 35 countries
Longmuir, Maximilian; Schröder, Carsten; Targa, Matteo - 2020
The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC)...
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality : education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870140
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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon
Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017
This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758398
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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961140
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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis
Luebker, Malte - 2019
Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...
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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS
Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018
Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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Financialization & top incomes in emerging economies : a comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium in the BRIC
Roberts, Anthony J.; Casey, Emma; Hodges, Baylee - 2023
Prior studies on emerging economies contend increasing returns to human capital has contributed to the growth of wage inequality over the last few decades. However, this explanation fails to account for an important dynamic of contemporary wage inequality: the growth of top labor incomes....
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Theoretical and empirical analysis of income inequality and wage differentials : a comparison between the United States and Guatemala
Owings, Ashley - 2010
multiple factors influencing wage rates at the household level including levels of education, household demographics … further develop Guatemala's economy by focusing on increasing gains in education and access of public resources across …
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Education, economic growth and measured income inquality
Rehme, Günther (contributor) - 2006
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Higher education expansion & labour income inequality in high-income countries : a gender-specific perspective
Sauer, Petra; Van Kerm, Philippe; Checchi, Daniele - 2022
The expansion of higher education since the second half of the 20th century was particularly pronounced among women. In … higher education expansion for labour income inequality has largely treated expansion as gender neutral. With this paper we … inequality to increase tertiary education among women as compared to men. To this end we draw on harmonised data from the …
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