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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - 2012
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into 'layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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Gender and Potential Wage in Europe : A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Sánchez, Rosario - 2012
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence concerning wage differentials and the existence of gender pay discrimination in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used the stochastic frontier approach as an alternative...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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Why Do Italy? A Comparative Analysis of Bangladeshi Migrants into Five European Countries
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Krueger, A. O. - 2020
The growing occurrence and significance of labour migration from Bangladesh has become an important area of interest in policy research. However, little attention has been given to understand and study the inadequacies in policy that support cross border movements within irregular migration....
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is …
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The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language : English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Christofides, Louis N.; Swidinsky, Robert - 2021
Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the acquisition of a second official language. Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with...
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Filling the Ranks : The Remplacement Militaire in Post-Revolutionary France
Rouanet, Louis - 2019
Many economists have analyzed the efficiency of a volunteered army relative to a conscripted army. However, they have rarely studied the working of real-world alternative, market-based, military institutions where military obligations are traded among the citizens. This paper fills this gap by...
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Filling the ranks : the remplacement militaire in post-revolutionary France
Rouanet, Louis; Piano, Ennio - In: European review of economic history : EREH 24 (2020) 4, pp. 696-715
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