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Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience

Straubhaar, Thomas; Golder, Stefan M. - 1999

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among all OECD countries. This paper analyses the migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … subsequent earnings growth. …

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Wives' Work and Family Income Mobility

Bradbury, Katharine; Katz, Jane - 2004

distribution saw larger increases in wives' employment, annual work hours, and earnings than downwardly mobile married couples …. Less-educated wives' earnings gains were critically important to their families' advancement. Moreeducated wives also … helped their families move up, but their contributions were surpassed by the earnings gains of their husbands. …

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Changes in earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Disentangling the forces behind pro-poor change in labour markets

Zepeda, Eduardo; Alarcon, Diana; Soares, Fábio Veras; … - 2009

and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the …, the paper decomposes the change in earnings per worker into changes in the demographic and socio … entire working labour force with the performance of the 20 per cent of workers with the lowest earnings. The paper finds that …

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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...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016

A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....

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Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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