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Optimal Time and Opportunity Cost of Job Search in Low-Income Groups: an Out-of-the-job Search Model
Todorova, Tamara; Dzharova, Veselina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685485
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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259807
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Education and Inequality: Evidence from Spain
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
connection between education and economic inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837246
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Equity Criteria as Instrument to Ensure Sustainability of Pareto or Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency: A Correlation Hidden by Sources of Confounding as Key for Sorting Out the Global Econom...
Benazzo, Piero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540106
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Recent changes in wage inequality in Argentina. The role of labor formalization and other factors
Luis, Beccaria; Roxana, Maurizio; Vazquez, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the last decade Argentina experienced a process of wage inequality reduction that is in stark contrast with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113766
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Economic Inequality in Portugal: A Picture in the Beginnings of the 21st century
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This article uses data from the 1994-2001 waves of the European Community Household Panel to study economic inequality … related features of inequality, such as age, employment status, educational attainment, marital status and economic mobility …. It also documents changes in inequality from 1994 to 2001, a period of economic expansion in Portugal. The statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787062
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Ownership and wages: Spatial econometric approach
Ogorevc, Marko; Verbič, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of our paper is to disentangle the relationship between ownership and wages using cross-section data for Slovenian medium size and large companies, where we account for spatial dependencies in wage determination. Space here is not considered in geographical context, but as a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260808
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Unemployment risk and wage differentials
Pinheiro, Roberto B.; Visschers, Ludo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Workers in less secure jobs are often paid less than identical-looking workers in more secure jobs. We show that this lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical, and firms differ, but do so only in offered job security (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650688
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Wage incentive profiles in dual labour markets
Grassi, Emanuele; Di Cintio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We propose a modified version of the Shapiro-Stiglitz’s (1984) efficiency wage model by introducing temporary contracts in the standard setup. New theoretical insights emerge on the incentive problem faced by workers and firms. We argue that the existence of temporary contracts broaden the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226959
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Internal Migration and Wage Differentials among Italian University Graduates
Di Cintio, Marco; Grassi, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we estimate wage differentials among Italian university Graduates three years after graduation due to sequential geographic mobility. By means of a matching procedure we quantify wage premia associated with the choice of studying far from home, moving after graduation and moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728046