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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517238
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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470547
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745407
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New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Fernández Sierra, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080122
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New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Fernández Sierra, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080524
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the Us
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2022
to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083996
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The Impact of Sectoral Segregation on the Earning Differential between Natives and Immigrants in Russia
Polyakova, Evgeniya; Smirnykh, Larisa - 2015
Using nationally representative data (RMLS-NRU HSE) from 2004-2012, this paper examines sectoral segregation between immigrant (persons with an immigration background) and native workers and its impact on the earning differential in Russia. This is the first micro-level study in Russia about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131709
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Inadequacy inequality : the distribution and consequences of part-time underemployment in the US
Kim, Jaeseung; Golden, Lonnie - 2021
Despite some attention devoted to part-time employment withinsufficient or inadequate work hours, research is still too limitedon how the burden of underemployment is distributeddisproportionately on vulnerable workers and its implications forfinancial well-being and work-family balance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324351
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Wage polarization in the context of the Czech Republic
Náplava, Radek - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 22 (2022) 2, pp. 97-115
Existing studies have provided evidence of job polarization in many developed countries. The issue of wage polarization is less obvious: many articles do not address it at all, and some even confuse it with job polarization. At the same time, the significance of the phenomenon of polarization...
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