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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand … have exerted upward pressure on inequality. The estimated model is used to decompose historical changes in earning …
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Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context …Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … low intergenerational social mobility and weak real income growth for many households. A more inclusive pattern of growth …
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support of Argentina’s G20 presidency. Against a backdrop of increased inequality and persistently low productivity growth …This paper, Tax policies for inclusive growth in a changing world, has been prepared in support of Argentina’s G20 … Presidency. While this paper is focused on taxation policy, it forms part of a broader contribution that the OECD has made in …
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mechanism which reduces income inequality and provides an incentive for all adults to invest more in education. As a consequence …, the growth rate of per capita income will increase and income inequality will be reduced. …Technological change causes three consequences: it guarantees economic growth, it requires employees to acquire more …
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indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index …, along with purely economic variables, such as GDP per capita and government expenditure on education. The study covered 70 … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender …
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