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Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption : Wage Inequality Matters

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2021

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … inequality. In countries where public sector wages are highly unequal, however, raising the wages of government employees could …

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Characterizing life-cycle dynamics of annual days of work, wages, and cross-covariances

Aktas, Koray - 2021 - This version: February, 2021

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Misallocation and inequality

Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...

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Heterogeneity and wage inequalities over the life cycle

Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - In: European economic review : EER 134 (2021), pp. 1-23

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Educational mismatch and income inequality

Tang, Rongsheng; Wang, Gaowang - In: Economic modelling 100 (2021), pp. 1-20

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Earnings inequality and immobility for Hispanics and Asians : an examination of variation across subgroups

Akee, Randall; Porter, Sonya R.; Simeonova, Emilia - 2021

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A decomposition of labor earnings growth : recovering Gaussianity?

Pora, Pierre; Wilner, Lionel - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 63 (2020), pp. 189-205

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How Unfair is the Inequality of Wage Earnings in Russia? Estimates from Panel Data

Tiwari, Sailesh - 2015

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Who benefits more from manufacturing foreign direct investment? : examining its earnings distribution effects across earnings quantiles

Park, Jeong-Il - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 31 (2017) 4, pp. 285-298

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The impact of trade and technology on wage components

Borrs, Linda; Knauth, Florian - 2016

decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a … explain changes in the firm wage premium. The rising dispersion in worker-specific wages can be attributed to increasing skill …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …

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