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Global trends in income inequality and income dynamics : new insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1321-1360
; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is de … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306231
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Geography of skills and global inequality
Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
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Climate change, inequality, and human migration
Burzyńskia, Michał; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2019
. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118293
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The selection of high-skilled migrants
Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, … - 2015
We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294115
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The price of experience
Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012
We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, the large movements of the return to experience over the last four decades are almost perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683488
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Robots at work? : pitfalls of industry level data
Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely aect the employment share of low-skilled labor. We show that these effects hold only, when comparing hardly-robotizing with highly-robotizing sectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504766
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Robots at work? pitfalls of industry level data
Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely affect the employment share of low-skilled labor. We show that these effects hold only, when comparing hardly-robotizing with highly-robotizing sectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432819
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Trade Agreements and Global Pacts, Trade Deals and China's Trade Incursions (Presentation Slides)
Wind, Serge L. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916378
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Outsourcing : An Ethical Analysis of an International Trade Issue
McGee, Robert W. - 2005
Outsourcing is an efficient way to reduce a company's costs and is often necessary to remain competitive. However, the practice has had its critics. This paper summarizes the outsourcing debate that has been going on in the United States and identifies and discusses some ethical issues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028482
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880