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Technology, jobs and inequality: Evidence from India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016
capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment: Evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage … in public welfare policy as the main policy recommendations to achieve higher employment (and higher wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991902
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Back to the Future - Changing Job Profiles in the Digital Age
Stephany, Fabian; Lorenz, Hanno - 2019
The uniqueness of human labour is at question in times of smart technologies. The 250 years-old discussion on technological unemployment reawakens. Frey and Osborne (2013) estimate that half of US employment will be automated by algorithms within the next 20 years. Other follow-up studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053689
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Wage Changes, Establishment Growth, and the Effect of Composition Bias
Galizzi, Monica - In: Eastern Economic Journal 31 (2005) 2, pp. 165-184
This paper examines the relationship between wages and employment at the establishment level. It exploits a sample of Italian firms and workers. To correct for a potential labor composition effect, estimations use both the change in the firm's average wage and the mean of individual wage changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641616
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Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance
Hassler, John; Mora, José; Storesletten, Kjetil; … - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1999
In this paper, we introduce a positive theory of unemployement insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical rational agents, but differing in the initial distribution...
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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, June 2004
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450828
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage … in public welfare policy as the main policy recommendations to achieve higher employment (and higher wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661408
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
as well, and according to many economists, variations in skill inequality can explain variations in wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2019
Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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