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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

in cohort size affect real earnings in Europe. This is an important question in the light of widespread population ageing … are more sensible to changes in cohort size in Southern Europe, which points to a lower degree of substitutability between … Europe is in line with the higher employment protection that its workers enjoy, at least compared to the workers located in …

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Económica LI (2005) 1-2, pp. 29-57

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The U.S. workforce is substantially older and better-educated than it was at the end of the 1970s. The typical worker in 2010 was seven years older than in 1979. In 2010, over one-third of US workers had a four-year college degree or more, up from just one-fifth in 1979. Given that older and...

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Bad Jobs on the Rise

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...

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From Gutsherrschaft to Grundherrschaft: Demographic, Monetary, and Fiscal Factors in the Late-Medieval Decline of English Manorial Desmesne Agriculture

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

rising livestock product and other agrarian prices. It also demonstrates that the rise in real wages (agrarian) was partly …

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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...

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Making Jobs Good

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...

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