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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Gabriela Serrano, Gabriela - 2022

liberalization, affected the patterns of relative demand and relative earnings across skill-demographic groups in the 1990s … participation changed the skill-demographic composition of labor supply, pushing education and experience premium downward, but this …

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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …

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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882490

New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022

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Technical change and superstar effects: evidence from the rollout of television

Koenig, Felix - 2021

Technical change that extends market scale can generate winner-take-all dynamics, with large income growth among top earners. I test this "superstar model" in the entertainer labor market, where the historic rollout of television creates a natural experiment in scale-related technological...

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Automation and polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …

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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold : income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...

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Industries, mega firms, and increasing inequality

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - 2022

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...

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Income distribution in Latin America : the evolution in the last 20 years : a global approach

Tornarolli, Leopoldo; Ciaschi, Matías; Galeano, Luciana - 2018

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context...

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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time : a novel method applied to the Covid-19 crisis in Germany

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020

The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...

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