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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes

Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346

background or real-life income have hardly any impact on unveiled decision making. We conclude that in our experimental democracy … inequality perpetuated by social immobility is likely to undermine the general support for market-based systems. …

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Finance-growth-crisis nexus in Asian emerging economies: Evidence from VECM and ARDL assessment

Fukuda, Takashi; Dahalan, Jauhari - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 69-100

This paper examines the causal relationship between financial development, economic growth and financial crisis in the five Asian emerging economies (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand) during the period 1982 to 2007. All of these countries are known as emerging economies with...

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The finance-growth nexus revisited: From origins to a modern theoretical landscape

Stolbov, Mikhail - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-2, pp. 1-22

The paper recounts the history of the finance-growth nexus research from its origins to the yearly 1990s. The contributions are analyzed in connection with the socioeconomic context and advances in economic theory. Many ideas first expressed decades ago are still subject to constant discussions...

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Becoming Slimmer: Why Europe Needs to Cut Debt and Reduce Leverage

Gros, Daniel - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2013) 3, pp. 17-24

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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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Gender and ethnic inequalities in LAC countries

Canelas, Carla; Salazar, Silvia - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...

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Does it pay to be a public-sector employee?

Postel-Vinay, Fabien - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Direct wage comparisons show that public-sector employees earn around 15% more than private-sector employees. But should these differences be interpreted as a “public-sector premium”? Two points need to be considered. First, the public and private sectors differ in the jobs they offer and...

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers?

Anderson, Kathryn H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Within-establishment wage inequality and satisfaction

Poggi, Ambra - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-4, pp. 1-21

The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence on the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects …-being and inequality. Her results are robust to different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …

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The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile

Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-31

This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that … income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions … to figure out the contributing factors behind that dissimilarity in the behavior of inequality across those two …

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