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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152496
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Russia and the Soviet Union then and Now
Fischer, Stanley - 2021
The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four … historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New … 1970s and 1980s? What role did Gorbachev's policies play in bringing about the final collapse of the Soviet Union? Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215354
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades : A Reassessment
Autor, David H. - 2011
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132486
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Inequality at Work : The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
Card, David - 2010
We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137764
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Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time
Jones, Charles I. - 2010
We propose a summary statistic for the economic well-being of people in a country. Our measure incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using multi-country data sets. While welfare is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138316
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113154
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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Harrigan, James - 2011
We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118253
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122018
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Changing Social Contracts : Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2012
Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and argue that beliefs are a major determinant of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096858
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Ethnic Inequality
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2012
This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098474