, which is evidence for polarization in the U.S. labor market. In contrast, we find little evidence for wage polarization in ….S.. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. We conclude that although there is evidence … in both the U.S. and Germany which is consistent with a technology-driven polarization of the labor market, the patterns …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960-2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …

A growing income polarization and the related income spread takes more and more attention in the public debate. An … increase in the polarization of income is not only in terms of the social context and the feeling of injustice of enormous … great relevance. With an increasing income polarization the shape of the distribution changes such that both the upper and …

, which is evidence for polarization in the U.S. labor market. In contrast, we find little evidence for wage polarization in ….S. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. We conclude that although there is evidence … in both the U.S. and Germany which is consistent with a technology-driven polarization of the labor market, the patterns …

An increase in income polarization experiences more and more attention in the public debate. A polarization of income … class really shrinking due to a polarization of income distribution? While empirical studies show a unanimous picture of a … growing polarization in 2000, these results are controversial because of an arbitrary definition of respective income …

In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past … the overlap between the classes around the cut-values for each class. We then study polarization by use of the MRA in a … normalized polarization measure developed by Palacios and Garcia (2010) which consists of presenting the interaction of three …

In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the … of poles. After that we compute polarization using a multiplicative normalized polarization measure, developed by … Palacios-González and García-Fernández (An Intra-Group Variance Based Polarization Measure, 2010), which consists of three …