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Gender gaps in entrepreneurship and their macroeconomic effects in Latin America : prepared for the Institutions for Development Sector

Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - 2017

This paper studies the aggregate effects of the existing differences between male and female-run firms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the International Labor Organization (ILO), we show that only about one-fourth of the total firms...

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Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Wernham, Thomas - 2022

. Household earnings inequalities reversed direction, as hours of work for low-wage men stopped falling and hourly wage growth was …

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Trade and real wages of the rich and poor : evidence from Brazil and Mexico

He, Zheli - 2019

’s productivity growth decreases the relative nominal wage of the poor and the relative price index for the poor in Mexico and Brazil …

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Minimum wage policy and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gindling, Thomas; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023

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Automation trends and labor markets in Latin America

Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023

This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical strategies in order to approach the issues from...

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Capitalist spirit and the markets : why income inequality matters

Boukouras, Aristotelis - 2016

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Chasing the shadow: the evaluation of unreported wage payments in Latvia

Benkovskis, Konstantı̄ns; Fadejeva, Ludmila - 2022

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Brexit and labour market inequalities : potential spatial and occupational impacts

Davenport, Alexander; Levell, Peter - 2021

In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...

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Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Levell, Peter; Norris Keiller, Agnes - 2020

We examine the distributional consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers on wages in the UK. We quantify changes in trade costs across industries accounting for input-output links across domestic industries and global value chains. We allow for demand substitution by ﬁrms and consumers and...

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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco - 2023

wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to … wage growth by percentiles for all workers and job-to-job movers for each country over a more extended period. We find that … long run, as human capital accumulates over time. Thus, long-run wage growth is lower for job changers than for stayers, so …

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