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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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reproduce trends in the income inequality, and the labor and skills supplies of the United States between 1969 and 1996. We …
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The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...
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This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...
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employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …
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increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
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one of the potential explanations for the fall in income inequality observed during the past three years. However, a … further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …
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access to the educational system. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities (in the form of …, the results from the simulation of the model suggest that a higher level of inequality of opportunities is associated with … a lower level of average human capital, lower output per worker and higher income (wage) inequality. In other words, the …
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associated with the relative position of individuals). We show that more inequality in the distribution of endowments negatively … find that the opposite is true for wage inequality, namely, more wage inequality encourages competition and, as a result …
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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …
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