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Wage inequality and informality : evidence from Mexico
Binelli, Chiara - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-18
, 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 …
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The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan immigration in Peru
Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez, Bruno - 2022
employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466617
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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292022
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006
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How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
Wauthy, Xavier; Zenou, Yves - 2001
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262547
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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271316
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
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
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
at the tails of the wage distribution in high skill occupations, the effects on overall inequality are shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316922
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Power, productivity and profits
Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007
'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising inequality accompanied by an increase in both unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287860