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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived … areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour … their variation across areas are partly explained by job characteristics and especially occupation. Since minorities in some …
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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'mulatos' —the mixed-race descendent from European, Indigenous, and African population. However, Latin American countries have … veiled income inequalities between racial groups through mestizaje identity or the 'Cosmic Race'. Using LAPOP … taxation in income or 'tagging' could decrease race-based disparities and improve economic development …
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race. We then decompose the differences in lifetime earnings using the recentered influence function and show that human …
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Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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This study comprehensively investigates the wage structure determinants and gender pay gap in Korea. Using 2014 Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) data, we find that individual characteristics exhibit significant differences across the distribution and that magnitude and significance...
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