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How do social networks affect labor markets?
Schmutte, Ian - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
, which brings into question the effect they may have on inequality between and within different groups of workers. …
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The Relationship Between Unemployment and Earnings Inequality in South Africa
Tregenna, F. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009
Unemployment and earnings inequality have moved closely together in South Africa in recent years, suggesting that there … unemployment and earnings inequality in South Africa, specifically investigating the extent to which changes in unemployment can … account for changes in earnings inequality. Decomposing overall income inequality by factor source shows the overwhelming …
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Are changes in education important for the wage premium and unemployment?
Morató, Xavier Cuadras; Planas, Xavier Mateos - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
A generalized rise in unemployment rates for both college and high-school graduates, a widening education wage premium, and a sharp increase in college education participation are characteristic features of the transformations of the U.S. labor market between 1970 and 1990. This paper...
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Wage Compression and Welfare in Sweden
Lindquist, Matthew J. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2000
This paper calculates the quantitative significance of the welfare effects of wage compression in Sweden. This is done in a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations where agents choose both schooling (human capital) and assets (physical capital). This paper shows that when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645493
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The NAIRU and the Wage-setting / price setting loop: a new skilled/unskilled specification
BEFFY, P.-O.; L'ANGEVIN, C. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2005
The long-term equilibrium unemployment rate has returned to the center of the economic debate in France. It derives from two macroeconomic equations. Wages are the result of wage bargaining on the labor market (wage-setting equation) and firms set the corresponding level of employment...
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2015
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development
Bhaduri, Amit - 2018
inequality. We attempt to ascertain why some countries have been more successful in dealing with these issues through policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943898
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Ways to Overcome Poverty and Income Inequality in the Context of New Global Challenges: the Most Important Conclusions for Ukraine
Ramskyi, Andrii - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 24 (2021) 3, pp. 53-73
The article examines the risks of deepening poverty and income inequality that arise from global challenges of … increase of socio-economic risks, including poverty and inequality, the study of this issue is extremely relevant. The …, and their non-repayment, which generally cause sudden poverty and increasing inequality of income and property. Purpose of …
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The labor market in the US, 2000–2020
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well as, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, reflecting the Great Recession and the Covid Recession, but also...
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