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liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …
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liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080524
to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083996
liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286576
parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491185
skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …
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for middle-income households to buy a house there. I build a spatial equilibrium model in which households differ by skill … middle of the skill distribution in expensive locations empties out, making them more polarized and unequal. Empirical …
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end of the skill spectrum and largely spared the service jobs of workers at the low end, these forces have displaced many … jobs involving routine tasks – traditionally the sphere of middle-skill workers. Moreover, these same forces have pushed up … wages for high-skill workers disproportionately, contributing to increased wage inequality. The rise in inequality has been …
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