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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job … important information on the network segmentation of society. Gender, race, education, and income are concentrated unevenly … network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative …
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This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage levels. The influence of employer association is also considered. We use sector information - two-digit level disaggregation of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and...
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This paper examines the effect of skill-biased technological change on the structure of wages, the composition of employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations and minimum wage legislation lead to labor market...
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In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...
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This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...
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The recent empirical literature on household income dynamics in developing countries has tended to find considerable … statistical test which shows that these findings are partially driven by stochastic changes in transitory income. Estimates of …
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We develop a general equilibrium model of earnings, income and wealth heterogeneity in continuous time. We extend … interest rates provide a mechanism to link earnings, income and wealth distributions. We use this connection to demonstrate …
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