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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...
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's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with … specialization of the production function. The model matches well the statistics on income and wealth inequality, and the patterns of … task encroaching on income and wealth inequality. We apply the model to the pandemic recession by adding an SIR block with …
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We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …
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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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This paper presents a connecting methodology in order to trace the emerging dynamics of inequality for the youth … trace the relationship between technological advancement and their comparative levels of inequality for the youth population …
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trends in income inequality and labor and skills supplies observed in the United States between 1969 and 1996. The paper also …
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A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises - a pattern that is indeed … therefore not always useful in terms of understanding why broad inequality measures are changing. …
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natural experiment in scale-related technological change. The resulting inequality changes are consistent with superstar …
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Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …, increasing inequality. Significant gains in educational attainment, the demographic transition, and rising female labor force …
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