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Unemployment and External and Internal Labor Market Flexibility: A Comparative View of Europe, Japan, and the United States

Kucera, David - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 1998

flexibility, labor market institutions, the trade-off between unemployment and inequality (the so-called unified theory), social … institutions and unemployment, in which is is assumed that Japan has comparatively high wage flexibility. …This paper examines the relationship between unemployment and labor market flexibility. The latter is considered in the …

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Inequality reduction through self-employment under high inflation periods: the Mexican experience

Cárdenas, Mirenitzia; Villarreal, Héctor J. - Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y … - 2007

We propose self-employment as an explanation for the observed reduction in inequality occurring after the Mexican economic crisis of 1995. The evidence appears as a contradiction to the labour-hoarding hypothesis, which states that inequality was expected to increase because the only asset of...

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Rising Earnings Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Composition and Prices

Domeij, David - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in market prices of observable characteristics, changes in the composition of the labor force across demographic groups and industries, and changes in unobservables, and compares...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David H.; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables that inflate impact estimates via an...

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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teuling, Coen; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

Estimates of the e¤ect of education on GDP (the social return to education)have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill biased technological...

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Technology, Trade and Inequality

Bjørnstad, Roger; Skjerpen, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2003

In recent decades new technology has led to increasing demand for well-educated labour at the expense of labour with lower education levels. Moreover, increased imports from low-cost countries have squeezed out many Norwegian manufacturing firms employing a sizeable share of workers with low...

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