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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining

Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022

In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...

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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth: The Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010

Contreras, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section …

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Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys: 1957 - 2007

Sanhueza, Claudia; Mayer, Ricardo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 169-193

Using household surveys that cover more than 50 years of the political and economic history of Chile, we investigate … changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top 1% incomes. In line … correspond approximately with different economic policy regimes prevailing in Chile. We observe important changes in the …

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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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The Finnish developmental state and its growth regime

Jäntti, Markus; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2009

This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive mobilization of resources during this period, reflected mostly in a high rate of capital accumulation for manufacturing industries. This was achieved by an unorthodox combination of...

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Die Flat Tax: Wer gewinnt? Wer verliert? Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland

Schaefer, Thilo; Peichl, Andreas; Fuest, Clemens - 2006

-Reformvarianten in Deutschland auf die Einkommensverteilung auswirken würde, und wer die Gewinner und Verlierer dieser Reformvarianten …

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Makroökonomische Rahmenbedingungen und die Einkommensverteilung: Welchen Einfluss hat die Finanzkrise?

Berthold, Norbert; Brunner, Alexander; Zenzen, Jupp - 2010

Finanzkrise auf die Ungleichheit. Unter der Annahme, dass sich diese als (negativer) exogener Wachstumsschock manifestiert, ist zu …

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Ungleichheit in Liechtenstein: Entwicklung bei Vermögen und Einkommen

Brunhart, Andreas; Büchel, Berno - 2016

. Während seit dem Ende der 1960er-Jahre die Ungleichheit der Vermögen in Liechtenstein stark zugenommen hat, ist die … Ungleichheit der Einkommen stabil geblieben. …

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