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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028171
, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …
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of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …
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The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …
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nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …-15. Third, using reference influence function regressions, we quantify the extent to which changes in inequality over time can …
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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