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Wage Inequalities, Unemployment and Crime in the Transition and the Post-Transition Period : Case of Romania

Stef, Nicolae - 2011

This article analyses the impact of the unemployment level and the wage inequalities among economic sectors on the … policy of unemployment and investment …

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Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2001

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment … and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

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Rural-urban migration and dynamics of income distribution in China : a non-parametric approach

Liu, Yong; Wei Zou - In: China & world economy 19 (2011) 6, pp. 37-55

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Can minimum wages raise workers' incomes in the long run?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Moutos, Thomas - 2016 - This Draft: May 2016

Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...

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Euroskepticism, income inequality and financial expectations

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Wehner, Caroline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 2, pp. 539-576

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Fairness as a source of hysteresis in employment and relative wages

Skott, Peter - 2004

This paper analyses the influence of norms of fairness on wage formation. Fairness is defined by "real-wage" and "relative-wage" norms that relate wage offers to workers' own current wage and to the wages of other groups of workers, and, to avoid shirking, firms pay fair wages. The wage norms...

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The effects of labour market reforms upon unemployment and income inequalities : an agent-based model

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C; Roventini, Andrea; … - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 4, pp. 687-720

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Higher tax and less work : an optimal response to relative income concern

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2019

There is much evidence that relative income concern reduces subjective wellbeing and raises labour supply - "keeping up with the Joneses" (KUJ), while increasing use of social media and growing inequality encourage comparison. Models with one or two agent-types generally miss the policy relevant...

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The political economy of compensatory redistribution : unemployment, inequality and policy choice

Pontusson, Jonas; Weisstanner, David - 2016

redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and … more permissive of cuts in unemployment insurance generosity and income assistance to the poor. At constant generosity, the … employees do not have the same access to unemployment benefits as permanent employees. …

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Environmental tax reform and income distribution with imperfect heterogenous markets

Aubert, Diane; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2017

progressivity acts on unemployment and can moderate the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We finally provide numerical …

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