Similar Search Results

Chapter 19. Cross-Country Evidence of the Multiple Causes of Inequality Changes in the OECD Area

Förster, Michael F.; Tóth, István György - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1729-1843). 2015

This chapter provides a thorough survey of what recent international (i.e., cross-country) studies can tell us about the multiple causes of income inequality in the OECD area with regard to both levels and trends. The survey covers economics literature in particular but also relevant evidence...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025326

Inequality in Mexico : labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014

Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora; Scott, John - 2018

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966562

The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021

We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802873

Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus I - Struktur und quantitative Bedeutung anhand der ersten Ergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1995

Aufbauphase im vereinten Deutschland 1991 auch über den Tag hinaus von grundlegender Bedeutung. … the quantitativesignificance of Professions in the early stage of the unified Germany will be pointed out having a look at … different approaches regarding the western parts and the former eastern communist areas of the unified Germany. Further …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290099

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

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

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour …