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For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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employer size have been studied. A labour market in which wages depend on employer size means the characteristics of the same … for the hotel industry. Using data from the research project "Mismatch in education, productivity and wages in the … size and wages in the hotel industry. The second aim was to account for wage premia earned by workers employed by larger …
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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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