, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … between 1987 and 2002 wage inequality within informal workers accounted for over 60% of total wage inequality and that the … Mexican financial crisis of the mid-1990s increased the share of informal workers and, via this, wage inequality. The results …

employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …

understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …

at the tails of the wage distribution in high skill occupations, the effects on overall inequality are shown to be …

US earnings inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and the prospect of a reversal depends on what …

impact of large macroeconomic shocks on inequality. We analyse wage inequality in Ireland from the height of an economic boom … and a decline in inequality during the recession. …

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …