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and 2014, this paper investigates whether the decline was driven by wages declining more sharply for younger or older … workers. The analysis finds that the wages of older workers declined and the decline was more pronounced in the older cohort …
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discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it … deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it …
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This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate of the share of inequality that is unfair, this paper exploits the longitudinal nature of...
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the wages of workers employed at heterogeneous firms. The analysis of the data at the firm-level confirms earlier findings … of a differential positive effect of trade liberalization on the average wages at exporting firms relative to non …-exporting firms. However, this analysis of average firm-level wages is incomplete along several dimensions. First, it cannot fully …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of skill/industry premiums and labor force composition at the national and sector levels in seven East Asian countries with the objective of providing a comprehensive analysis of trends in demand for skills in the region. The paper addresses the following...
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Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade...
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The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality …
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beliefs precedence over other aspects of belief systems. Historical work finds that doctrines of race came into their own in … emerged a "race theory that cast Britons and Indians in a relationship of absolute difference" ; and that arguments used by … Aborigines from the human race. Racial ideology shaped categories and perceptions in ways that the authors show can give rise to …
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This paper examines the public sector wage premium using nationally representative household surveys from 91 countries. The public sector generally pays a wage premium compared to all private sector salaried employees, but the size of the premium is sensitive to the choice of the private sector...
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This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...
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