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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271316
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Global trends in income inequality and income dynamics: New insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1321-1360
; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is de … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536877
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Inequality, income dynamics, and worker transitions: The case of Mexico
Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros Zurita, … - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1669-1705
information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is …
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Inequality, income dynamics, and transitions of Mexican workers
Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros, Alfonso; … - 2022
information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319979
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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291446
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The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jorgen Heibo - 2013
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329188
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How do social networks affect labor markets?
Schmutte, Ian - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
, which brings into question the effect they may have on inequality between and within different groups of workers. …
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The ins and outs of top income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen - 2013
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968532
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Income risk inequality: Evidence from Spanish administrative records
Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1747-1801
In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177639