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Inequality of earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332733
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272949
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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427502
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens: Geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010
gender research to explain why men's and women's evaluations of justice are determined to a considerable degree by the … specific situation within their household. The assumptions derived regarding gender-specific patterns in justice attitudes are … thesis that gender-specific patterns in the evaluation of personal earnings are both reduced and increased in dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600951
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262472
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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268560
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Economic inequality and household production: The effects of spezalization of genders
Heikkilä, Anni; Piekkola, Hannu - 2003
Empirical evidence from several countries has shown that full income including the value of household production is more equally distributed than income earned from market work and unearned income. Trends in income distributions during 1988-2000 indicate an increase in economic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285223
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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267644
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Income distribution, technical change and the dynamics of international economic integration
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2005
This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294524
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Medium run redux: technical change, factor shares and frictions in the euro area
McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2008
We develop a framework for analyzing “medium-run” departures from balanced growth, and apply it to the economies of continental Europe. A time-varying factor-augmenting production function (mimicking “directed” technical change) with a below-unitary substitution elasticity coupled with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604961