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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold : income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015
After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...
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Income distribution in Latin America : the evolution in the last 20 years : a global approach
Tornarolli, Leopoldo; Ciaschi, Matías; Galeano, Luciana - 2018
While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context...
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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023
Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
Muñoz S., Ercio - 2024
This paper estimates intergenerational mobility in education using data from 91 censuses in 24 countries in Latin … complete one educational stage more than their parents (primary education for those whose parents did not finish primary school …, or secondary education for those whose parents did not complete secondary school). It measures downward mobility as the …
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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
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Explaining cross-state earnings inequality differentials in India : an RIF decomposition approach
Gradín, Carlos - 2018
Despite the relevance of geographical disparities in India, earnings inequality occurs mostly within states, but with a broad range of variability in its levels. We investigate the sources of such variability using RIF decompositions of the inequality gaps between most populous states and India....
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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470547
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Routine biased technological change and wage inequality : do workers' perceptions matter?
Vannutelli, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco - 2021
The Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) has been called as a relatively novel technologybased explanation of social changes like job and wage polarization. In this paper we investigate the wage inequality between routine and non-routine workers along the wage distribution in Italy. Thanks...
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Inadequacy inequality : the distribution and consequences of part-time underemployment in the US
Kim, Jaeseung; Golden, Lonnie - 2021
Despite some attention devoted to part-time employment withinsufficient or inadequate work hours, research is still too limitedon how the burden of underemployment is distributeddisproportionately on vulnerable workers and its implications forfinancial well-being and work-family balance....
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How tax wedge of low and upper-income households affects income distribution : findings from OECD countries
Aktas, Emin Efecan - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 3, pp. 246-272
The tax wedge mainly quantifies the extent to which tax on labour income enervates employment and it reflects the total labour costs. It is commonly defined as the ratio between the amount of taxes paid by the worker and the related total labour costs for the employer. As such, the tax wedge...
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