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Trade liberalization, employment flows and wage inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003422342
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Fifteen years of inequality in Latin America : how have labor markets helped?
Azevedo, João Pedro; Dávalos, María Eugenia; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717781
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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … inequality. In countries where public sector wages are highly unequal, however, raising the wages of government employees could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564880
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The motherhood penalty and female employment in urban India
Bordia Das, Maitreyi; Žumbytė, Ieva - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632724
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Capital and labor : the factor income composition of top incomes in the United States, 1962–2006
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Lakner, Christoph - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794466
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ICT adoption and wage inequality : evidence from Mexican firms
Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - 2018
information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794807
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Internet job search, employment, and wage growth : evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt
El-Mallakh, Nelly - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230837
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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections
Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020
This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....
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I perceive therefore I demand : the formation of inequality perceptions and demand for redistribution
Bussolo, Maurizio; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Giolbas, Anna; … - 2019
This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059022
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Distributional effects of tobacco taxation : a comparative analysis
Fuchs, Alan; González Icaza, Fernanda; Paz, Daniela - 2019
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer households. This study compares the simulated distributional effects of tobacco tax increases...
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