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chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …' offshoring decisions and yields two new channels by which offshoring affects wage inequality. Chapter 3 studies the impact of …
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...
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This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...
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complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …
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The present work aims to contribute to a better understanding of the determinants of wage inequality focussing on the … explaining wage inequality I attempt a re-evaluation of its role starting from the premise that globalization, technical change … three phenomena as possible explanations for inequality distinguishes the present study from most previous contributions …
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This study examined whether the demand for more educated science and engineering workers outweighed longstanding practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of...
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human capital inequality and technology adoption decisions. …
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product market strategies, but also shed light on patterns of income inequality within and between industries.Building on this … contribution of worker and firm reallocation to within-industry changes in earnings inequality. We find that the entry and exit of … distributions over time. However, the importance of these and other factors in driving observed dynamics in earnings inequality …
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