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Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …
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The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence on the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects …-being and inequality. Her results are robust to different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …
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Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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In this article, we examine structural changes in minimum wage and low wage labor following the introduction and first increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the impact that workers face earning gross hourly wages below the minimum-wage or low-wage thresholds are identified by comparing...
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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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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