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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs, raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics …. These concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388328
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Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Income Distribution
Dinopoulos, Elias; Heins, Gunnar; Unel, Bulent - 2021
tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239625
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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
devastated California’s economy. Low-income and minority Californians in particular have felt the brunt of both the virus and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309526
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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023469
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Medición de los Ingresos y la Pobreza Oficial en América Latina y el Caribe
Beccaria, Luis; Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo - 2013
El presente documento analiza las encuestas de hogares y las metodologías de las estimaciones oficiales de pobreza de la región; en particular, en primer lugar busca analizar la forma en que se miden los ingresos de las personas y los hogares en las encuestas de hogares de América Latina y el...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429401
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Medición de los ingresos y la pobreza oficial en América Latina y el Caribe
Beccaria, Luís Alberto; Gluzmann, Pablo - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777951
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Increasing income inequality: productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an … equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of … predicting the recent changes observed in the Danish income distribution. In addition, the model emphasizes that shocks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269677
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Importing inequality: Immigration and the top 1 percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, Andy - 2020
universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as … the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years can be attributed to migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625369
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Trade liberalization and labor market in developing countries: Theory and evidence
Arbache, Jorge Saba - 2001
This paper presents a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developing countries. We discuss models which seek to explain the empirical finding that openness has increased wage inequality in several developing countries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290701
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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an … equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of … predicting the recent changes observed in the Danish income distribution. In addition, the model emphasizes that shocks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941761