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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10

Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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Monetary Policy and the Racial Wage Gap

Berisha, Edmond; Dubey, Ram Sewak; Olson, Eric - 2023

This paper aims to clarify the relationship between monetary policy shocks and wage inequality. We emphasize the relevance of within and between wage group inequalities in explaining total wage inequality in the United States. Relying on the quarterly data for the period 2000-2020, our analysis...

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Trends in Economic Inequality : Are U.S. States Growing Apart?

Berisha, Edmond - 2020

Using quarterly real GDP data from 2005 to 2019 for all U. S. states from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we construct an economic inequality measure which is additively decomposable into within and between-region inequality. We find increases in economic disparity in terms of total real GDP...

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Decomposition of Income Inequality in France : The role of Interest Rate

Berisha, Edmond - 2020

Understanding within and between group inequality is fundamental in understanding the evolution of income inequality in any country. Using a century of data for France, and the Theil measure of income inequality, which is decomposable, we show that income inequality within the bottom 90\%...

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Wealth and Want : Income Inequality and Demand for Luxury Goods in the United States

Akarsu, Mahmut Zeki; Gharehgozli, Orkideh - 2023

This study investigates the relationship between conspicuous consumption and inequality in the United States by doing text mining in Google searches for luxury and comfort goods. The findings reveal a strong correlation between the pursuit of luxury items and levels of income inequality in...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S. - 2000

endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how …

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Earnings and education in Portugal : 1985 - 1991

Andrade, João de Sousa; Duarte, Adelaide; Simões, … - In: International journal of social economics 41 (2014) 7, pp. 586-608

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Trends in Cyprus Wage Inequality : The Returns to Education

Kallenos, Theodosis L. - 2016

Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main … aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education …. In this study I analyze the evolution of wage premiums of attaining further education in the Republic of Cyprus. The …

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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany

Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014

/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …

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