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Bruttoeinkommensverteilung in Deutschland 1984 - 1999 und Ungleichheit unter ausländischen Erwerbstätigen

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2002

Diese Studie betrachtet die im deutschen sozioökonomischen Panel (GSOEP) erfassten gewichteten monatlichen Bruttoverdienste vollzeitbeschäftigter Erwerbstätiger in der Periode 1984 bis 1999. Dabei werden einige Aspekte der Einkommensverteilung aufgedeckt, die von der bislang allgemein...

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...

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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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Revisiting the German wage structure

Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - 2007

This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...

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Unionization and the evolution of the wage distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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The distributive Effects of Education: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, María Florencia; Escudero, … - 2011

. -- unconditional quantile regression ; income inequality ; education ; Argentina …

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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data

Ning, Guangjie - 2010

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … of personal earnings and income gap between different groups. We analyze the underlying mechanism of the impact of … labor market and work less time; all of these will have a pronounced impact on earning and income inequality. Quantile …

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Koulutus, palkkaerot ja syrjäytyminen

Asplund, Rita - 2001

Tässä raportissa esitetään hiljattain valmistuneen EU-rahoitteisen tutkimushankkeen keskeisimpiä tuloksia. Hankkeen painopiste oli koulutuksen yksilöille tuottamassa taloudellisessa hyödyssä palkassa mitattuna sekä julkisen rahoituksen vaikutuksissa tähän yksityistaloudelliseen...

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section … surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these … be the consequence of a flattening of the income-age profile and hence a reduction in the returns to experience. …

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