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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates’ wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653404
wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and …
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Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …
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capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …
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Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …
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more. This implies that the abolition of the 'two-tier' education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education …
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We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...
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Apartheid South Africa. Studies analysing the extent of income inequality show that since the end of Apartheid the distribution … data used in most of these studies are repeated cross sections, allowing a snapshot of the extent of income inequality at … more detailed description of wage inequality. Average earnings of birth cohorts of African and White workers employed full …
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Using a VAR model of the American economy from 1984 to 2003, we find that, contrary to official claims, the Federal Reserve does not target inflation or react to inflation signals." Rather, the Fed reacts to the very real" signal sent by unemployment, in a way that suggests that a baseless fear...
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