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Household structure, labour participation, and economic inequality in Britain, 1937-61
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - In: The economic history review 77 (2024) 1, pp. 41-59
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486699
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300706
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Die Folgen der Ungleichheit: ein neues Maß der menschlichen Entwicklung
Xu, Guo; Hümmer, Veronika - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 47, pp. 21-24
Zum 20. Jubiläum des Human Development Index (HDI) haben die Vereinten Nationen einen Index für menschliche Entwicklung veröffentlicht, der nun auch Ungleichheit berücksichtigt (IHDI). Länder mit großen sozialen Disparitäten, insbesondere mittel- und südamerikanische Staaten, schneiden...
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269901
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271359
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A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development
Bhaduri, Amit - 2018
inequality. We attempt to ascertain why some countries have been more successful in dealing with these issues through policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894338
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Software piracy, inequality and the poor : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid … piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach - Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410046
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299075
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600912
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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