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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …

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Industries, mega firms, and increasing inequality

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - 2022

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

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Wage inequality and labor rights violations

Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions …: they increase inequality in job quality. …

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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …

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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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Effective Working Hours and Wages: The Case of Downward Adjustment via Paid Absenteeism

Pfeifer, Christian - 2009

wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and …

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Italy’s Modern Economic Growth, 1861-2011

Felice, Emanuele; Vecchi, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2012

, regional inequality, living standards and inequality of personal income distribution are also discussed. Over the long run … persisted, at the national level economic growth was accompanied by a secular decline in income inequality. This pattern has … productivity; southern regions have further lagged behind the rest of the country, and income inequality is on the rise. Italy has …

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An analysis of the changes in British workers' real wages since the 19th century

Pencavel, John H. - 2024

The increase in the real wages of British workers over the last one hundred years is often attributed to the growth in labour productivity, but this has rarely been confirmed. In the research reported here, this ascription is confronted with annual observations on wages and productivity spanning...

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