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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway
Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012
Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?
Hazans, Mihails - 2007
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban-rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064348
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Elitism in higher education and inequality : why are the Nordic countries so special?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2018
levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … inequality than most of the other OECD countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894336
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium : Two Literatures and Their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Suedekum, Jens - 2021
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325233
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016
differences. Finally, we find that inequality in human capital distribution increases in time and that, in the long run …, inequality always promotes growth. …
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Education expansion and income inequality : empirical evidence from China
Hu, Xiaoshan; Wan, Guanghua; Zuo, Congmin - 2023
variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of … distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality … total wage inequality in 2010 and 2018; (2) 70% of the overall decline in wage inequality from 2010 to 2018 can be …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
been embedded in a large literature that seeks to document and understand the substantial increase in wage inequality over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737