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The role of digitalization in the FDI : income inequality relationship in developed and developing countries
Van Bon Nguyen - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 28 (2023) 55, pp. 6-26
digitalization to empirically assess the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), digitalization and their interaction on income … in developed countries but decreases it in developing countries, digitalization reduces income inequality in both groups …/value - The paper is the first to introduce digitalization into the FDI - income inequality relationship. Furthermore, it provides …
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Rising Inequality : Transitory or Permanent? New Evidence from a U.S. Panel of Household Income 1987-2006
DeBacker, Jason Matthew - 2012
We use a new and large panel dataset of household income to shed light on the permanent versus transitory nature of rising inequality in individual male labor earnings and in total household income, both before and after taxes, in the United States over the period 1987-2006. Due to the quality...
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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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Manufacturing Jobs and Inequality : Why is the U.S. Experience Different?
Novta, Natalija - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may havecontributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typicallysmall, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initialmanufacturing wage premium and the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860990
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Technical change and superstar effects: evidence from the rollout of television
Koenig, Felix - 2021
Technical change that extends market scale can generate winner-take-all dynamics, with large income growth among top earners. I test this "superstar model" in the entertainer labor market, where the historic rollout of television creates a natural experiment in scale-related technological...
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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052312
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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 2. The Distribution of Labour Income
Koske, Isabell; Fournier, Jean-Marc; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
This paper explores the role of macroeconomic factors and structural policies in shaping the distribution of labour income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy can also have an important influence on inequality...
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A refinement of the relationship between central bank independence, inflation, and income inequality in developing countries
Fawaz, Fadi; Rahnamamoghadam, Masha - In: Journal of central banking theory and practice 13 (2024) 1, pp. 117-131
This paper analyzes the impact on income inequality of a set of variables usually considered in the growth literature as potential growth determinants. There is evidence to suggest that unemployment and inflation are positively associated with income inequality; except for countries with central...
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Income Distribution and Structural Transformation : Empirical Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Dastidar, Ananya - 2012
The process of structural transformation forms the very basis of economic growth and development. This paper analyses the implications of alternate patterns of structural change for changes in the overall distribution of income within an economy. An empirical analysis is carried out based on...
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Global earnings inequality, 1970 - 2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
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