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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility has evolved in the United States of America. We show...
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the conditioning role played by the skills of the labour force, captured by different levels of education. We find that …
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Are recessions drivers of structural change? Here we investigate the resilience of cities, and argue that a re-allocation of labour between industrial sectors in times of crisis induces an acceleration in structural change. Using UK data, we find that cities experienced a sharp increase in...
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Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality into mean, dispersion, and price components. The...
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adopted EU Commission's proposal for a Directive on adequate minimum wages was supported by a detailed analysis of the social … detectable also in market incomes. In turn, the withdrawal of social benefits because of higher minimum wages seems to neutralise …
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adjustments- we provide new comparable estimates of the gap in gross hourly wages between women and men performing similar work …
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Out of four major structural changes affecting the US economy - namely a rising share of skilled workers, skill-biased technological change, decreasing progressiveness of taxation and productivity slowdown - we show that the decline in productivity growth not only is the main driver of the...
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This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...
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This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates … and wages. Their labour market exit risk is relatively low, occupational and sectoral changes are least common and, in the …
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