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Job Market Polarization and Employment Protection in Europe

Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012

Although much attention has been paid to the polarization of national labor markets, with employment and wage growth …-country differences in this process. I analyze job polarization in 12 European countries using an occupational skill-intensity measure … polarization correspond to variation in economic conditions and to dissimilarities in the employment protection legislation. …

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Emergence and Persistence of Extreme Political Systems

Buchheim, Lukas; Ulbricht, Robert - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

population leading to democracies, and revolts by installing autocracies. Reinforcing this polarization, extreme political …

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CHARACTER ENDORSEMENTS AND ELECTORAL COMPETITION

Chakraborty, Archishman; Ghosh, Parikshit - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2013

conflict between voters and the elite. Larger ideological conflict leads to stochastic polarization-parties either adopt the …

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Twin peaks : growth and convergence in models of distribution dynamics

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At is- sue is what happens to the cross sectional distribution of economies, not whether a single economy tends towards its own steady state. It is the latter, however, that has preoccupied the traditional approach to con- vergence...

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skilldistribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across theOECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to...

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Empirics for economic growth and convergence

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

regressions, time series modelling, panel data analysis|can be misleading for under- standing convergence; a model of polarization …

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Polarization, Risk and Welfare in General Equilibrium

Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011

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

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BROWNFIELDS - STRENGTH POLES OF IASI URBAN SPACE RECONSTRUCTION

Teodora M?d?lina PAFTAL?; Nicoleta Monica MUST??EA - In: Management Research and Practice 5 (2013) 3, pp. 43-55

Contemporary trends of Romanian urban area development highlights the need, increasingly stringent, for reintegration, restoration of the old abandoned industrial sites, uselessly occupying large areas in a period when we speak increasingly about the lack of space. In order to support the...

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Intercity Income Inequality Growth and Convergence in China

Anderson, Gordon; Ge, Ying - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 1, pp. 70-89

: inequality and polarization indices, to illustrate basic trends, stochastic dominance techniques, to provide unambiguous economic … welfare and poverty comparisons across regions and over time, and transition probability techniques and polarization …

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Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence (Now published in European Economic Review, vol.40, no.6 (1996), pp.1353-1375.)

Quah, Danny - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1995

regressions, time series modelling, panel data analysis - can be misleading for understanding convergence; a model of polarization …

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