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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29

development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …

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Uncertain booms and fragility

Lee, Michael Junho - 2018

I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...

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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress : A Meta-Study

Terzidis, Nikos - 2019

Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...

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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries

Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2016

Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …

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Gender and ethnic inequalities in LAC countries

Canelas, Carla; Salazar, Silvia - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...

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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...

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Top earners : cross-country facts

Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017

We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...

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