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This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
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Over the last decades, income inequality has increased globally. How do social policies affect this increasing trend …? How do international trade and technological progress affect inequality? What is the profile of income inequality in China …? Based on quantitative analyses of determinants of income inequality, this study provides a number of new insights into these …
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The aim of my PhD projects is to investigate various problems in applied parametric and nonparametric estimation, and eventually in prediction. The main focus is on welfare analysis. For instance, in both nonparametric density estimation and regression, the so-called boundary effects, i.e. the...
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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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economic dimensions of this decision, and conclude that political stability, democracy, income inequality, as well as the …
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