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income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income … travail. Si les mutations technologiques et la mondialisation contribuent, à tout le moins, à la formation des inégalités, les …
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key drivers. The most researched channels include skill-biased technological change, international trade, immigration …
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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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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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share of workers with an upper-secondary or post-secondary non-tertiary degree, a rise in trade union membership, a rise in …
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows...
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The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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substantial impact on the dispersion of the worker wage component and in part on positive assortative matching. Trade fails to …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943789
generate most of the observed facts on trade and inter-skill group inequality, but also between unequally talented workers …
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