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Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272949

The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries

Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293303

Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273493

Social Preferences and Competition

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009

There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....

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Social Preferences and Competition

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427563

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 … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332733

Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012

disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368155

International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009

While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the skill and demographic composition of immigrants than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269536

Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - 2012

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320248

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