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Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2013

important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …

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Solow meets Marx: Economic growth and the emergence of social class

Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - 2011

profitable for the rich than the poor, inequality increases. The model is calibrated to illustrate polarization and increasing … emerges. Even if capital markets later improve, the polarization is persistent. The mechanism also has relevance for modern …

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Polarization, risk and welfare in general equilibrium

Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - 2011

labor market risk, infuences the degree of polarization in the wealth distribution, as poor agents in particular save more …

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

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Lobbying contests with endogenous policy proposals

Münster, Johannes - 2005

Lobbyists choose what to lobby for. If they can precommit to certain policy proposals, their choice will have an influence on the behavior of opposing lobbyists. Hence lobbyists have an incentive to moderate their policy proposals in order to reduce the intensity of the lobbying contest. This...

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The Nature of Conflict

ARBATLI, CEMAL EREN; Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Economics Department, Williams College - 2015

the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …

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How asymmetric funding of parties can lead to political polarization

Köppl Turyna, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This work analyzes the impact of asymmetric financial constraints on the platforms of parties using a formal model of elections. Main results show that when a party faces a tight financial constraint the platform chosen in equilibrium is further away from its ideal point compared to the case...

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwagerz, Robert - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2015

We present a modified citizen-candidate model where the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the two-candidate equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: however small the cost of candidacy, the...

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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure

Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011

distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of …

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The aftermath of reunification: Sectoral transition, gender, and rising wage inequality in East Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Antonczyk, Dirk - 2011

distribution to decline. Changes in the industry composition alone would have led to a polarization of wages for female workers …

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