Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … lowest quintile by 0.17 per cent. This effect is smaller at upper wage quintiles and insignificant for the highest wage … quintile. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increases in minimum wages explain 26 per cent of the decline in wage …

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement …

This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South … Theil index is used as a comparative tool for estimating wage inequality, given that the variance of logarithms applied in … extent of high inequality in the country. Worker and firm characteristics account for 35 per cent and 18 per cent of wage …

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015 … education across the wage distribution and uses a simulation approach to assess the impact on wage inequality of educational … wage distribution. Simulation results suggest that educational expansion substantially widens inequality relative to …

the evolution of the wage structure, it is not the main driver. Its effect was crowded out by employment and wage policies …In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context … characterized by a decreasing earnings inequality following the fall of education premia, and an asymmetric wage polarization led by …

We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the increase, but between 2007 and 2013 no clear changes occurred. In 1988 …