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Global Income Inequality by the Numbers : In History and Now --An Overview--
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
the most recent episode of globalization, from 1988 to 2008. It suggests that the period might have witnessed the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974841
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Global Inequality : From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income differences between workers and capital-owners in individual countries. Real income of workers in most countries was similar and low. This was the basis on which Marxism built...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975731
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Global Income Inequality : What it is and Why it Matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748065
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Once NEET, Always NEET? A Synthetic Panel Approach to Analyze the Moroccan Labor Market
Alfani, Federica - 2020
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834270
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Incidence of the Digital Economy and Frictional Unemployment : International Evidence
Lederman, Daniel - 2020
-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … correlation between unemployment and the digital economy, which is due to the existence of a negative bivariate correlation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840289
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Jobs ! Electricity Shortages and Unemployment in Africa
Mensah, Justice Tei - 2019
This paper presents evidence on how the provision of unreliable electricity constrains expansion in the productive sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata on electricity transmission networks on the continent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899516
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Immigrant Versus Natives? Displacement and Job Creation
Ozden, Caglar - 2018
The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937938
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Unemployment and Mortality : Evidence from the Great Recession
Nguyen, Ha - 2017
Did unemployment in the Great Recession hurt people's health? The broad answer is no: job losses have statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969753
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The Great Recession and Job Loss Spillovers : Impact of Tradable Employment Shocks on Supporting Services
Nguyen, Ha - 2017
This paper explores the spillover effects of job losses via input linkages during the Great Recession. Exploiting exogenous variation in tradable employment shocks across U.S. counties, the paper finds that job losses in the tradable sectors cause further job losses in local supporting services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970228
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Demand-Driven Propagation : Evidence from the Great Recession
Nguyen, Ha - 2017
This paper provides empirical evidence for the Keynesian demand-driven propagation: initial rounds of job losses lead to additional rounds of job losses. The paper shows that U.S. counties with higher pre-existing exposure to tradable industries experienced larger job losses in non-tradable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970760