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The labor market effects of occupational licensing in the public sector

Kleiner, Morris M.; Wang, Wenchen - 2023 - Revised June 2023

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Changes in Educational Wage Premiums in Sweden: 1992-2001

Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

This paper investigates changes in educational wage differentials in Sweden between 1992 and 2001 and places them in a longer-term perspective. The university wage premium has increased noticeably between 1992 and 2001 while the gymnasium wage premium has been constant. These results, together...

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Changes in Educational Wage Premiums in Sweden: 1992-2001

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2004

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Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of Labor Economics

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David H.; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than …

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The great compression of the French wage structure, 1969–2008

Verdugo, Gregory - In: Labour Economics 28 (2014) C, pp. 131-144

Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was … upper tail wage inequality in France relative to other countries. Using a model with imperfect substitution between … wage inequality at the top of the distribution in France during this period is explained by the increase in the educational …

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