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Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates … inequality. …
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Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …
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One of the most interesting facts about the growth of developed nations, especially of the US growth, in the last three decades is significant growth of the ratio of the wage of skilled labor to that of unskilled labor. At the same time, existing evidence seems to suggest that the ratio of the...
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inequality. In this sense, this work presents empirical evidence for the existence of the “Great Gatsby curve” within a single …. Finally, the paper investigates one specific mechanism behind this correlation: whether higher income inequality might lead to … of income inequality. …
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The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
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net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call … human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent-income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh …
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As a project appraisal tool, the preliminary feasibility study (PFS) has contributed to enhancing the efficiency of public investment decision-making in the Republic of Korea over the last two decades. To overcome the limitations of the efficiency-oriented cost-benefit analysis, the PFS...
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, which brings into question the effect they may have on inequality between and within different groups of workers. …
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Information from longitudinal surveys transforms snapshots of a given moment into something with a time dimension. It illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger generations. It can track the different pathways of men...
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