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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

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

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...

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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies

Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012

wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we make use of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions inquiry released in 2009. The premium is found to be higher at the right tail of the distribution of wages, suggesting …

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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

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...

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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...

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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru

Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024

In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...

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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023

associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …

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