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When supply meets demand: Wage inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Álvaro A. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 23, pp. 1-20
decreased, while upper-tail inequality has increased, but at a slower rate. A larger supply of skills and polarization of labor …
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Doing rawls justice: Evidence from the PSID
Abatemarco, Antonio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-33, pp. 1-39
Distributive value judgments based on the 'origins' of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible choices) are increasingly evoked to argue that 'the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal'. However, one may reasonably agree that distributive value...
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The Trouble With Human Capital Theory
Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2018) 86, pp. 15-32
Human capital theory is the dominant approach for understanding personal income distribution. According to this theory, individual income is the result of “human capital”. The idea is that human capital makes people more productive, which leads to higher income. But is this really the case?...
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Redistributing Income Through Hierarchy
Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2021) 98, pp. 58-86
Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent. Given the messiness of the struggle for resources, why...
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Estabilidad en la desigualdad: Chile 1990 - 2003
Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 295-329
This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...
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A Simple Method for Predicting Distributions by Means of Covariates with Examples from Poverty and Health Economics
Dai, Jing; Sperlich, Stefan; Zucchini, Walter - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 152 (2016) 1, pp. 49-80
We present an integration based procedure for predicting the distribution f of an indicator of interest in situations where, in addition to the sample data, one has access to covariates that are available for the entire population. The proposed method, based on similar ideas that have been used...
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997-2008
García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-15, pp. 1-40
In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the … of poles. After that we compute polarization using a multiplicative normalized polarization measure, developed by … Palacios-González and García-Fernández (An Intra-Group Variance Based Polarization Measure, 2010), which consists of three …
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Who owns the robots rules the world
Freeman, Richard - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Robots, that is any sort of machinery from computers to artificial intelligence programs that provides a good substitute for work currently performed by humans, can increasingly replace workers, even highly skilled professionals, and thus reduce opportunities for good jobs and pay. But, with...
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Nutritional Information: Traffic Light Labelling Is the Best Way to Reach Consumers
Hagen, Kornelia - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 19, pp. 141-151
More than half of German adults are overweight. Those most often affected include the elderly, poor, and individuals with poor education. Yet is overweight an issue that economists should address? Poor nutrition and lack of exercise play a major role in widespread diseases. One third of total...
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Nutritional Labeling Today: What Consumers Want - and What They Understand
Hagen, Kornelia - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 20, pp. 152-157
Findings from consumer surveys and studies about nutritional labeling tend to be hard to compare, because the methodologies they use and questions they address are quite varied. Nevertheless, by evaluating these studies, we can obtain a good overview of existing nutritional labeling systems and...
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