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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
as well, and according to many economists, variations in skill inequality can explain variations in wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130547
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What really happened to British inequality in the early 20th century? : evidence from national household expenditure surveys 1890-1961
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737504
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Inter-industry wage differences and individual heterogeneity : how competitive is wage setting in the UK?
Carruth, Alan A.; Collier, Bill; Dickerson, Andrew P. - 1999 - Draft: December 1999
There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532068
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153565
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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain
Taylor, Mark P. - 2013
We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009778459
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438447
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage … in public welfare policy as the main policy recommendations to achieve higher employment (and higher wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661408
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The gender pay gap in UK medicine
Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2021
work-related characteristics, consistent with evidence of potential substantial gender inequality in rewards. It is at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486374