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China's WTO accession and income inequality in European regions : external pressure and internal adjustments
Kvedaras, Virmantas; Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2020
investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … significant channeling of the trade pressure to income inequality through the shrinking manufacturing sector, the increasing …Exports from China have surged substantially since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219034
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012
disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … negatively by trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and increasing financial payments. Using … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368155
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The impact of automation on inequality across Europe
Kaltenberg, Mary; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240820
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Trade and real wages of the rich and poor : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
He, Zheli - 2019
Trade liberalization affects real-wage inequality through two channels: the distribution of nominal wages across … heterogeneity across jobs. I parametrize the model for 40 regions using sector-level trade and production data and find that China …. On net, real-wage inequality falls in the two countries in the baseline case. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127386
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272712
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Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
Ge, Ying - 2019
intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage … for productivity and use trade costs as the instruments. We further investigate the mechanism of how importing … intermediates might contribute to both inter-firm and intra-firm wage inequality. Our evidence is consistent with three important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870213
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Offshoring and labour market inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190184
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Access to imported intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality
Ge, Ying; Fang, Tony; Jiang, Yeheng - 2019
intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage … for productivity and use trade costs as the instruments. We further investigate the mechanism of how importing … intermediates might contribute to both inter-firm and intra-firm wage inequality. Our evidence is consistent with three important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995909