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. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing, Electric Gas and Water … compare the wages of the outlined sectors with the wage structure of agriculture sector. The Split technique for means has … been deployed to interrogate the data and the propositions of this research. It is revealed in this paper that wages of all …
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apprehended. There is a shift of middle wage level jobs from regular to casual employment, leading to declining inequality among … casual workers and increased inequality among regulars. However, availability of mandays is decreasing, especially among …
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A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income … gets redistributed to the rich. This article looks at some reasons that income inequality could rise, and then explores …, and at evidence on whether workers real wages have been falling, or perhaps only manufacturing wages. It also examines …
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Emigration leads to finite changes in structure of production and sectors vanish because they cannot pay higher wages … the existing results in the literature. In particular emigration can lead to a drastic change in the degree of inequality …
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The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political … conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens …. This paper shows that Australia has experienced the opposite of a ‘wages breakout’ since 2000. Over this period Australian …
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We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality …
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The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a …
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This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...
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The paper discusses the ∪-shaped relationship between the equivalence scale n^ε and the Gini index instead of considering the equivalence scale’s relationship to the generalised entropy measures, which was studied by Coulter, et al. (1992). An end-point condition is given for the ∪-shaped...
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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 …
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