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We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005-2019. The analysis is based on a nonparametric approach and is focused primarily on the properties of the distribution of earnings changes. We...

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Precarious work in the retail sector in Estonia, Poland and Slovenia : trade union responses in a time of economic crisis

Mrozowicki, Adam; Roosalu, Triin; Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 19 (2013) 2, pp. 267-278

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

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The Agricultural Wage Gap : Evidence from Brazilian Micro-Data

Alvarez, Jorge - 2018

A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrative panel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors to decompose this gap. I find that most of the gap is explained by...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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Estonia and Kazakhstan : financial and economic fate of economies after the collapse of the USSR

Yembergenkyzy, Nazym; Fałda, Beata - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 83-97

sovereignty as a result. Among them were countries such as Estonia and Kazakhstan. This article considers whether these countries …. Currently, Estonia is considered the most developed country of the 15 former members of the USSR, and Kazakhstan is in 5th place … Estonia needs radical measures to achieve economic acceleration. The authors, analyzing the strategic activity of Estonia and …

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Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Lage in den baltischen Staaten : Estonia ; Studie

Purju, Alari - Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2013

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Krizis v stranach Baltii : pričiny glubokogo spada

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Manufacture after the crisis : the case of Estonia

Kilvits, Kaarel - In: The economy and economics after crisis, (pp. 335-348). 2011

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