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Liberalized trade policy and inequality : evidence from post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues

Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2015

wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill … falls as the profit level rises for the industry. We have also provided a brief analytical exercise to point out conditions …

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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013

Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018

We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the increase, but between 2007 and 2013 no clear changes occurred. In 1988 …

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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017

educational outcomes. Ethnic groups also show distinct patterns of wages and wage gaps, and there is evidence of a 'sticky floor …

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Earnings in the South African Revenue Service IRP5 data

Kerr, Andrew - 2020

The IRP5 and IT3(a) tax data from the South African Revenue Service have been made available to researchers through a joint project between the South African Revenue Service, the National Treasury, and UNU-WIDER. In this paper, I explain how to use these data to correctly identify labour income...

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Gender matters : private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

little is known about how successful such training may be in closing the gender wage gap. We use a matched employer …-employee panel dataset to assess why firms train and whether formal training affects wage outcomes in Vietnamese SMEs. Training is … generally found to be firm-sponsored and specific in nature. We find that training is associated with a wage increase of 7 …

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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2016

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the benchmark year. These estimates have been revised and updated since 2010, and the purpose of this paper is to explain the ways in which the estimation methodology has evolved and...

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The colonial legacy : income inequality in former British African colonies

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2014

This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how unequal were incomes? How did the position of...

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Global inequality : how large is the effect of top incomes?

Jorda, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2016

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of household surveys by combining information on income...

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The inequality we want : how much is too much?

Krozer, Alice - 2015

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold, remain stable...

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Measuring the labour income share of developing countries : learning from social accounting matrices

Treeck, Katharina van - 2015

This paper is the first to address the challenges of measuring the labour income share of developing countries. The poor availability and reliability of national accounts data, and the fact that self-employed people, whose labour income is hard to capture, account for a major share of the...

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