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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … understand the many dimensions of labour market inequality. …
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. Performance pay may contribute to wage inequality through two channels: (a) workers receiving it generally already have higher … performance pay earn 7 to 9 per cent more. The increase in inequality is not a given, however, as strong employee representation …
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Much of the literature on wage inequality describes increases in wage inequality over time driven by seemingly …. At the same time institutional protection has continued to decline. It is, however, not as clear that wage inequality is … inequality since the early 2000s and substantial variation between countries. Second, even in the United States there has …
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This paper estimates the union effects on the wage gap and dispersion in two pooled samples of construction craftworkers (CPS 1983-88 and 2000-05) using decomposition analysis and kernel density estimation. It shows that despite the decline in the adjusted union wage gap declined over time, the...
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Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …
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quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …
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studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …
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disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …
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dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …
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We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials...
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