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This paper investigates changes in educational wage differentials in Sweden between 1992 and 2001 and places them in a longer-term perspective. The university wage premium has increased noticeably between 1992 and 2001 while the gymnasium wage premium has been constant. These results, together...
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In der Öffentlichkeit wird oft die These vertreten, daß die zunehmende Ungleichheit der Lohneinkommen ökonomisch geboten, wenn auch gesellschaftspolitisch bedenklich sei. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, daß die Lohnbildung in modernen Arbeitsmärkten nicht dem Prinzip der kompensierenden...
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The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...
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capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …
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understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …
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these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non … significantly overestimate the rise in real inequality. Moreover, we show that the allowance for non-homotheticity is quantitatively … inequality when there is segregation in consumption / production, by which we mean that people's consumption patterns are skewed …
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