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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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in employment and wages in this country after 1983 using a cohort approach. Estimates based on microdata from the 1998 … unemployment. Results also exhibit a significant decline over time in returns to education, whereas paid employment opportunities … and wages have improved for uneducated workers. …
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employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … change in high school enrollment, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and …
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The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …
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This study examines the relationship between education and income in Texas counties that are located along the border … increased importance of education in the service-oriented labor market that has emerged in recent years in the United States …
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We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
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women had been narrowing men in employment experience and education. While women continued to catch up on men the average …
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The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993 and has been operating for more than 8 years … and Expenditure survey, these combined education effects of the FFE program would represent an increase in lifetime …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
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results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between -0.28 to -0.46,once we control for …
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