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Disability-based labour market inequalities

Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024

Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002

Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s; workers with low relative earnings in the beginning of the...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school). Finally, it was found that the …

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968 - 2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

Chong, Alberto; Olivera, Mauricio - 2005

This paper explores the link between compulsory voting and income distribution using a cross-section of countries around the world. Our empirical cross-country analysis for 91 countries during the period 1960-2000 shows that compulsory voting, when enforced strictly, improves income...

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Does Foreign Aid Help Reduce Income Inequality?

Calderón, Ma. Cecilia; Chong, Alberto - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as `true` time series findings, we also focus on dynamic panel data techniques, which allow accounting for...

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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2006

In this paper we outline (i) why sigma-convergence may not accompany beta-convergence, (ii) discuss evidence of beta-convergence in the U.S., and (iii) use U.S. county-level data containing over 3,000 cross-sectional observations to demonstrate that sigma-convergence has not occurred at the...

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The gender pay gap in Austria: Tamensi movetur!

Böheim, René; Himpele, Klemens; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2011

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...

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Labor market matching, wages, and amenities

Lamadon, Thibaut; Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, … - 2024

This paper develops the nonparametric identification of models with production complementarities, worker-firm specific disutility of labor and search frictions. Mobility in the model is subject to preference shocks, and we assume that firms can write wage contracts. We develop a constructive...

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