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Wage polarization in the context of the Czech Republic

Náplava, Radek - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 22 (2022) 2, pp. 97-115

Existing studies have provided evidence of job polarization in many developed countries. The issue of wage polarization is less obvious: many articles do not address it at all, and some even confuse it with job polarization. At the same time, the significance of the phenomenon of polarization...

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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the...

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The impact on the skill premium of the task content of jobs : evidence from online job ads for Chile 2009 - 2018

Campos-Gonzalez, Jorge - 2025

We evaluate the influence on the skill premium of the task content of jobs by exploiting the text data from online job ads covering 2009-2018 (over 189,000 ads) published by one of the leading Chilean online job portals (www.trabajando.com). Our analysis tests the expected complementarity...

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The evolution of wage inequality within local U.S. labor markets

Eisenbarth, Anthony; Chen, Zhuo Fu - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25

There are few concentrated studies on wage inequality across local labor markets at the city or metropolitan level. This paper studies the changes in wage inequality among 170 metropolitan areas by using micro-level data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey from 1980 to 2019. We...

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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

. Während Verschiebungen der Arbeitsnachfrage, nämlich eine vermehrte Ausübung von Routine-Tätigkeiten sowie die Verlagerung von … Verschiebungen im Arbeitsangebot entlang der Arbeitsnachfragekurve ebenfalls zu einer Job-Polarisierung geführt haben. In dieser … erklären können. Zu diesem Zweck bestimmen wir unkonditionale Lohnelastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage, indem wir zum ersten Mal …

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Inequality and technological change

Macera, Manuel; Tsujiyama, Hitoshi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 2, pp. 427-451

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We develop a model with heterogeneous workers and firms in which the demand for skills is characterized by firms' recruiting behavior. We use the model to quantify the relative...

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The child penalty : evidence from Spain

Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...

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Employment, wages, and the gender gap in Mexico : evidence of three decades of the urban labor market

Cuellar, Cecilia Y.; Moreno, Jorge O. - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the formal market and wages for each gender and quarter,...

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The price of polarization : estimating task prices under routine‐biased technical change

Böhm, Michael - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 761-799

This paper proposes a new approach to estimate task prices per efficiency unit of skill in the Roy model. I show how the sorting of workers into tasks and their associated wage growth can be used to identify changes in task prices under relatively weak assumptions. The estimation exploits the...

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The impact of within-occupation technological change on spatial sorting and wage inequality

Roncone, Francesco - 2025

Both the demand for skilled labor and the skill wage premium have become increasingly dispersed across the United States. This paper examines how technological change within occupations drives these uneven local developments. Combining a novel measure of technological change-capturing shifts in...

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