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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …
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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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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints …
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We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...
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