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increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
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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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, regional inequality, living standards and inequality of personal income distribution are also discussed. Over the long run … persisted, at the national level economic growth was accompanied by a secular decline in income inequality. This pattern has … productivity; southern regions have further lagged behind the rest of the country, and income inequality is on the rise. Italy has …
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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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more. This implies that the abolition of the 'two-tier' education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education …
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In this paper we discuss the impact of malnutrition on the distribution of abilities and income in a simple overlapping generations framework. Workers are distributed uniformly over a low-ability and a high-ability range. If workers earn below subsistence wages, the probability that their...
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In this paper we discuss the impact of malnutrition on the distribution of abilities and income in a simple overlapping generations framework. Workers are distributed uniformly over a low-ability and a high-ability range. If workers earn below subsistence wages, the probability that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150792
This paper investigates empirically the relationship between international trade (in particular with non-OECD countries) and wage differentials of workers with different skills. We examine years from 1996 and 2005 in several countries and, whereas past studies (conducted on previous years) had...
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Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
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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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