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The distribution of income in Central America

Gindling, Thomas; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2013

We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...

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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …

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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?

Schneck, Stefan - 2014

household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …

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Globalization, wage polarization, and the unstable great ratio

Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - 2014

The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred in the US not just recently, but also in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that in each case polarization resulted from increased automation, and...

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The long term pay-off from working longer hours

Campbell, David (contributor); Green, Francis (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

hours over 1991 to 1995 on 1996 wages. We find that there are positive but diminishing long-term returns, with the returns …

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Polarisierung von Arbeitseinkommen im internationalen Vergleich : empirische Befunde

Burmester, Iris; Scherg, Bettina - 2013

. Besides the shape of the distribution it has to be checked whether labor market conditions such as minimum wages with the …

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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition

Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010

rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …

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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income

Redmond, Paul - 2020

the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …

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On the Impact of Transparent Wage Distributions and Horizontal Inequity Aversion in an Experimental Labor Market

Hagemann, Petra - 2007

, agents are not informed about their co-workers' wages and efforts, but in the second treatment they are. Our results show …

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