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The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Arrears in Russia:Evidence from the RLMS

Gerry, Christopher J.; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Li, Carmen A. - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the nature of the gender wage gap in Russia between1994 and 1998 taking into account the pervasiveness of Russia’s non-payment institutions. Investigatingdiscrimination ‘bands’ at different sections of the income distribution and for various important...

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Changes in earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Disentangling the forces behind pro-poor change in labour markets

Zepeda, Eduardo; Alarcon, Diana; Soares, Fábio Veras; … - 2009

Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...

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The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment

Delmar, Frédéric; Folta, Timothy; Wennberg, Karl - 2008

This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...

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Earning differentials between German and French speakers in Switzerland

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

The paper analyzes the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...

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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? Experimental evidence

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and relate them to several behavioral determinants, in particular …

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

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Who is on the rise in Austria: Wage mobility and mobility risk

Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2004

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

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Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?

Chong, Alberto - 2001

The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on recent theories that link democracy and income inequality for the period 1960-1995. In simple cross-country regressions I find a non-monotonic link between these two variables when using ordinary least squares, instrumental...

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