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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
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alternatively inequality indicators and the change in subjective well-being in the cross-country analysis. The first exercise shows … that inequality cannot explain the paradox. The second exercise shows that the results in the GWP 2006 return to be …
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employment and distinct aspects of the wage distribution - wage levels, wage gaps, and poverty and inequality indicators - with … wages of more educated workers declined, bringing forth reductions in poverty and inequality. Second, I build a model that … percent of the occupational downgrading and around 80 percent of the changes in wage levels, inequality, and poverty during …
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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