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La Distinction reloaded: Returns to Education, Family Background, Cultural and Social Capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2010
The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children’s academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to...
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The Contingency Thesis of Collective Bargaining Institutions
Traxler, Franz - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 34-39
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Politics in Wage setting: Does government colour matter?
Johansen, Kåre; Mydland, Ørjan; Strøm, Bjarne - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2006
This paper studies the relationship between wage formation and the political colour of the government in an economy with centralized wage bargaining. Ideological, organizational and personal ties between the central trade union and the social democratic political party suggest that the trade...
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Has Growth in Supply of Educated Persons Been Important for the Composition of Employment?
Stølen, Nils Martin; Åvitsland, Turid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1997
In the Norwegian fabricated metal industry there has been a shift in demand from unskilled to skilled workers during the period 1972 to 1990, and relative demand for white collar employees has also increased. The paper analyses the factors behind the shift in the composition of these three kinds...
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The Food Crisis. Implications for Labor
Scherrer, Christoph (contributor);  … - Rainer Hampp Verlag
the experiences of Brazil and India with the extension of social protection for the poor. …
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The General Equilibrium Wage Impact of Trade-Induced Shifts in Industrial Compositions of Employment in Brazilian Cities, 1991-2000
Mardukhi, Jian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
industrial compositions in cities of Brazil induced by substantial trade liberalization in this country during the 1990s. A … countries such as Brazil, with already non-uniform distribution of economic development across regions, create geographical …
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
between whites and the African descendent population (pretos and pardos) in Brazil. The authors estimate quantile Mincer … environments, is key to reduce inter-racial earnings inequality in Brazil, specific policies are also needed to facilitate non …
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Falling urban wage premium and inequality trends: evidence for Brazil
de Oliveira Cruz, de Oliveira Cruz , Bruno; … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2012) 24, pp. 91-113
In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the … finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the …
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Long-term Health and Socioeconomic Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Brazil
Zhang, Xuelian - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2012
. This study employs the Brazil Living Standards Measurement Study Survey to examine the long-run consequences of child labor … labor is associated with a worse self-assessed health index for rural adults and higher probability of getting health … reduce child labor in Brazil and other developing countries. Moreover, the different effects of early working on urban and …
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini - a "19th Century statistic" - which has subsequently become known as the ´Palma Ratio'. In this new article, I revisit the argument for such a measure. Using new data, I...
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