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Trends in growth and labor markets in the last two decades: evidence from Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; El Lahga, Abdel Rahman; López Acevedo, … - 2021
Tunisia's GDP contracted by -8.8 percent in 2020, the worst performance since gaining independence in 1956. The poverty … rate in Tunisia could reach at least 20.9, the same level recorded in 2010, and as high as 25 percent according to various … estimates (Kokas et al., 2020); while inequality could reach an unprecedented Gini level of 0.41. While Tunisia has faced …
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Globalization and income inequality: The role of transmission mechanisms
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2014
The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially during the recent decades. At the same time, most of these countries experienced a rise in income dispersion. Against this background, the paper analyzes empirically whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335797
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The twin effects of globalization: Evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274735
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141998
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Globalization and income inequality : the role of transmission mechanisms
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2014
The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially during the recent decades. At the same time, most of these countries experienced a rise in income dispersion. Against this background, the paper analyzes empirically whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354569
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052155
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The Demand for Skills and the Labor Cost in Partner Countries: Evidence from the Enlarged EU
Lo Turco, Alessia; Parteka, Aleksandra - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010
We analyse the consequences of trade integration in Europe (1995-2005) detecting how the labor costs in partner countries affects the demand for domestic high- and low-skilled labor in the EU-15 and five new member states. In general, independently on the skill level, the results hint at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725731
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Does the skill intensity of the multinational enterprises matter for labor market outcomes?
SAĞLAM, Bahar - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 25 (2010) 294, pp. 9-34
Abstract. This paper studies the labor market implications of high-tech versus low-tech foreign firms by using a heterogeneous matching model. This approach allows us to identify the effect of the different skill intensity of the foreign firm’s production on the wages of unskilled and skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525433
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Inter-Industry Gender Wage Gaps by Knowledge Intensity: Discrimination and Technology in Korea
Horrace, William C.; Ural, Beyza P.; Jung, Jin Hwa - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2006
A new gender wage gap decomposition methodology is introduced that does not suffer from the identification problem caused by unobserved non-discriminatory wage structure. The methodology is used to measure the relative size of Korean gender wage gaps from 1994 to 2000 across industries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504092
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010
earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671733