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Constructing long and dense time-series of inequality using the Theil index
Conceição, Pedro; Galbraith, James K. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000997733
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Constructing long and dense time-series of inequality using the Theil index
Conceição, Pedro; Galbraith, James K. - In: Eastern economic journal 26 (2000) 1, pp. 61-74
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001485692
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Constructing long, dense time series of inequality using the Theil index
Conceição, Pedro; Galbraith, James K. - In: Inequality and industrial change : a global view, (pp. 263-279). 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001662487
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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Menezes-Filho, Naercio - 2010
We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761738
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An Essay on Real Wage Index Numbers
Pencavel, John H. - 2011
Real wage index numbers have been used to measure movements in the standard of living of the typical worker. This paper … describes some of these indicators for the United States and England. A new real wage index is proposed that resembles the … sliding scale used to adjust wages in certain industries years ago. This new index is applied to U.S. manufacturing industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130789
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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...
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Tracing the divide : intergroup disparity across countries
Darity, William A. <Jr.>; Deshpande, Ashwini - In: Eastern economic journal 26 (2000) 1, pp. 75-85
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The persistent–transitory representation for earnings processes
Ejrnæs, Mette; Browning, Martin James - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 3, pp. 555-581
We consider the decomposition of shocks to a dynamic process into a persistent and a transitory component. Without additional assumptions (such as zero correlation) the decomposition of shocks into a persistent and transitory component is indeterminate. The assumption that is conventional in the...
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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle
Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182809
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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle
Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215285