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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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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...
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We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
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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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for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
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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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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