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We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...
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), and received inflows of skilled labor. -- skill demand ; job tasks ; inequality ; polarization ; technological change …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to …
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exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and its underlying sources. We exploit nationally representative longitudinal … relative contribution of each socioeconomic factor to the total estimated socioeconomic inequality. Our results suggest that …
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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output … prices can affect factor prices, this paper explores the relationship between output prices and wage inequality. The rise of …
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Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … will only have a minor impact on inequality among households with at least one minimum-wage worker. Low wage earners are …
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network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative …
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understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for …
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. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …
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