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The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs....
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The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability and volatility have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability/volatility is a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability/volatility...
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The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712144
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the …
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This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
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as well, and according to many economists, variations in skill inequality can explain variations in wage inequality …
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This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …
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The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262791
persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260800