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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
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The Impact of Sectoral Segregation on the Earning Differential between Natives and Immigrants in Russia
Polyakova, Evgeniya; Smirnykh, Larisa - 2015
migrants in Russia …
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306326
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The earnings differential between formal and informal employees in urban China
Zuo, Hong - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 115-124
Few studies in the field of labor economics have analyzed the earnings differential between formal and informal employees in urban China. Due to data limitations, previous studies on this subject have not yielded accurate and widely acceptable results. This study seeks to obtain more accurate...
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Mapping stratification : the industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality
Hartmann, Dominik; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Kaltenberg, Mary - 2019
Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...
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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...
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938183
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Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920735