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The Turkish wage curve : evidence from the household labor force survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011
finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235849
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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach
Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)
large and sizable wage gaps between formal and informal workers in Turkey. While parametric methods give similar estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548188
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The role of establishments and the concentration of occupations in wage inequality
Handwerker, Elizabeth Weber; Spletzer, James - 2015
This paper uses the microdata of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey to assess the contribution of occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth over time. We show that occupational concentration plays an important role in wage determination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317658
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The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2018
In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 was high and relatively stable, there were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883417
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Employer power, labor saving technical change, and inequality
Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional consequences of automation, where the labor market is assumed to be competitive. In a simple task-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859428
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Inequality-adjusted gender wage differentials in Germany
Skoglund, Ekaterina; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2013
This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequalityadjusted gender pay gap measures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009785357
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On the determinants of changes in wage inequality in Bolivia
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2015
In recent years, Bolivia has experienced a series of economic and political transformations that have directly affected the labor markets, particularly the salaried urban sector. Real wages have shown strong increases across the distribution, while also presenting a decrease in inequality. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505930
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Wage structure and inequality : the role of observed and unobserved heterogeneity
Boza, István - 2021
heterogeneity - and their interactions - to overall wage inequality. Consistent with earlier findings from Western Europe …, Scandinavia, the US and Brazil, we show that firm heterogeneity provides around 22%, individual heterogeneity 50%, and … occupational heterogeneity 8% of overall wage dispersion, with wage sorting between firms and individuals in itself explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601798
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Inequality-adjusted gender wage differentials in Germany
Skoglund, Ekaterina; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2013
This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128266
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Trade, inequality and distribution-neutral fiscal policy : an elementary framework
Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2017
Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than absolute welfare is non-existent in trade literature. In a simple HOS model we consider tax-transfer policies that keep the pre-trade degree of inequality unchanged between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654520