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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028171
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …
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This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … inequality in a context of capital-skill complementarity and imperfect mobility of workers. The main conclusion of this paper is …
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. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …
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The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …
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inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …
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