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The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new millennium. Results show that the changes in...
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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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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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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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We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality … highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both …
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We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality … highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both …
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We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
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We study intergenerational educational mobility in Denmark over the 20th century during which the comprehensive Danish welfare state was rolled out. While mobility initially was low, schooling reforms benefiting children from disadvantaged backgrounds led to dramatic increases in mobility for...
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