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Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?
Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...
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Upgrading or polarization? Occupational change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990-2008
Oesch, Daniel; Rodriguez Menes, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
wage-setting institutions? Our analysis reveals massive occupational upgrading that closely matches educational expansion … suggest that wage-setting institutions play an important role, channelling technological change into more or less polarized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592967
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The role of product diversification in skill-biased technological change
Nam, Choong Hyun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Since the 1980s, the labour demand has shifted toward more educated workers in the US. The most common explanation is that the productivity of skilled workers has risen relative to the unskilled, but it is not easy to explain why the aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s....
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Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence
Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In recent years, economists and other social scientists have devoted extensive research efforts to understanding the widening wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers. This paper focuses on a slightly different question: how has globalization affected the relative share of income going...
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Explaining the two-way causality between inequality and democratization through corruption and concentration of power
Eren, Ozlem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system, reducing the amount and the efficiency of spending on key areas for human capital formation. Mohtadi and Roe (2002) and Mohtadi and Agarwhal (2002) argue that democracy first...
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Why are women in the Caribbean so much more likely than men to be unemployed?
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
differentials in unemployment. National economic conditions and job segregation explain a portion of gender differences in … unemployment, with men more likely to find employment during an economic upturn. Even within job categories, though, women …’s unemployment rates are higher than men’s, suggesting employment discrimination. The results imply that economic growth is not …
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