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The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new millennium. Results show that the changes in...
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in an emerging economy resemble those explored for industrialized ones. These are: skills-biased technical change … Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 …
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, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement … of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians … premium. Inequality reductions since the 2000s are explained by a fall in earnings in the top percentiles of the distribution …
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The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …
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standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the …
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This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of … inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four … obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two …
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This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality …
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Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
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