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We study the determinants of lifetime earnings (LE) inequality in the United States, for which differences in lifetime …
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information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the …
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information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is …
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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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schema in explaining wage inequality. Regression-based inequality estimations confirm the role played by social classes …
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I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011 … the distribution of job value among workers and find a positive correlation between wage and non-wage value. Inequality in … job value is thus considerably greater than wage inequality, reflected in the standard deviation of job value being more …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276474