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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527
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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498
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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge
Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014
Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430026
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College attainment, income inequality, and economic security : a simulation exercise
Hershbein, Brad; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Pardue, Luke W. - 2020
We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches-a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach-we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161547
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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268
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Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms : the Italian case
Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1637-1667
This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306306
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2021
investigated by estimating a multinomial probit model. We find that education, age and gender strongly affect the probability of … increasingly large category of non-workers are the losers. Rates of return to education have increased but income function analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324772
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Equity in Swedish Health Care Reconsidered : New Results Based on the Finite Mixture Model
Gerdtham, Ulf; Trivedi, Pravin K. - 2008
This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilisation previously analyzed by Gerdtham (Health Economics 6, 303-319, 1997) within the framework of the standard two-part model. Departing from the user/nonuser distinction, we use the more flexible framework of the finite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156329
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Group-based inequalities : the case of Viet Nam
Hoai, Dang Thi Thu - 2017
/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592927
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Further theoretical results on the regression-based approach to inequality decomposition and application to India
Bigotta, Maurizio; Krishnakumar, Jayalakshmi; Rani, Uma - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667199