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A joint theory of polarization and deunionization
Foll, Tobias; Hartmann, Anna - 2019
polarization and the increasing income inequality. …
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The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage inequality: A symptom of low job mobility?
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2021
Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630368
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The role of industries in rising inequality
Briskar, Juraj; Di Porto, Edoardo; Rodríguez Mora, … - 2023
inequality. The total variance surged by 10 log points, with 55% occurring between industries, particularly in a few low …, inequality increased predominantly between industries and concentrated within a small number of sectors. Italy's increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446130
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Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain : An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration.At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061432
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Institutionalized inequality and brain drain : an empirical study of the effects of women's rights on the gender gap in high-skilled migration
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230041
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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level
Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409050
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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy
Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019
Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974394
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Market and political power interactions in Greece : an empirical investigation
Kollintzas, Tryphon; Papageorgiou, Dimitris; Tsionas, … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-43
In this paper, using a dynamic panel of 21 OECD countries, we find that, unlike the other OECD countries in the sample, wage setting institutions, competition conditions, public finances, and external imbalances can account for the behavior of the public sector wage premium (WPR) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821749
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Contract employment as a worker discipline device
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Soundarajan, Vidhya - 2018
Fixed-term contract employment has increasingly replaced regular open-ended employment as the predominant form of employment notably in developing countries. Guided by factory-level evidence showing nuanced patterns of co-movements of regular and contract wages, we propose a two-tiered task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871914
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Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy
Asali, Muhammad - 2019
Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870470