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earnings inequality without significant changes in within firm inequality. The estimated model fits the earnings distribution … inequality is largely due to the increase in her educational attainment over the same years. A simulation of skilled biased … technical change in the model also qualitatively fits the recent changes in earnings inequality in the United States. …
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network science, we map the Brazilian Industry- Occupation Space (BIOS). The BIOS measures the extent to which 600 occupations … network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative … poverty within these communities. In sum, the BIOS reveals how the coupling of industries and occupations contributes to …
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Since the 1980s, the share of wages in national income declined almost all over the world. This paper provides an …
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extension to an additional 17 years of analysis underscores the original finding that rising wage inequality was not an episodic … event of the 1980s. That being said, overall 90/10 inequality and the college wage premium have plateaued since 2005 …. Despite overall inequality plateauing, upper- tail 90/50 inequality has continued to increase since 1980 for both men and …
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Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences … inequality, the concept of theoretical interest; and (c) there is no indication that skew in the distribution of incomes (rather … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …
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distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large real wage increases at the bottom of the …
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-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market power and pay wages below competitive levels, whereas low-wage firms pay … competitive wages. Over time, large, high-wage, high-productivity firms generate increasingly large labour market rents while …
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-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market power and pay wages below competitive levels, whereas low-wage firms pay … competitive wages. Over time, large, high-wage, high-productivity firms generate increasingly large labour market rents while …
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