Order discrimination curves are derived to refine the first one by taking into account inequality and/or efficiency in the … indices. We use standard economic size distributions to recover closed forms of discrimination curves. The main results are …

This paper proposes a new model of wage determination and wage inequality. In this model, wage-setters set workers …-setters (or arising from their policies) form a distribution, and all the wage-setter-specific distributions are combined into a … for the effects of democracy on wage inequality. These include: (1) The effects of the number of wage-setters and their …

assessing inequality using the CPS ASEC data, it illustrates how valuable a multi-metric inequality analysis is by reconciling … some open questions regarding the trend in inequality and the role of the composition of income along the distribution, and … it provides a baseline assessment of the trend in earnings inequality for four distinct groups of income earners. The …

decreased, while upper-tail inequality has increased, but at a slower rate. A larger supply of skills and polarization of labor …Wage inequality in Portugal has increased over the last thirty years, with two distinct periods. The period from 1984 … to the mid-90s witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with …

of capital (or an increase in capital productivity) causes employment and wage polarization. Specifically, further … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …