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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels

Lilla, Marco - 2016

of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining inequalities and wages convergence over time emerge from comparison …

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American exceptionalism in market income inequality : an analysis based on microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database

Gornick, Janet C.; Milanović, Branko; Johnson, Nathaniel - 2017 - First draft, February 14, 2017

The US has exceptionally high inequality of disposable household income (i.e., income after accounting for taxes and transfers). Among working-age households (those with no persons over age 60), that high level of inequality is caused by a high level of market income inequality (i.e., income...

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Gindling, Thomas; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2021

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …

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Three essays in inequality

Schwabish, Jonathan A. - 2003

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Why Do People Overwork? Over-Supply of Hours of Labor, Labor Market Forces and Adaptive Preferences

Golden, Lonnie - 2009

Several key trends across most advanced economic economies have increased both desired hours of work and the salience of working time on well-being. Models in the economics discipline offer both labor supply and labor demand reasons to explain why many people might be willing to work longer...

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Global Labour in Distress, Volume II : Earnings, (In)decent Work and Institutions

Goulart, Pedro (ed.); Ramos, Raúl (ed.); … - 2022

Effectiveness in Redistribution -- Changing Perspectives on Inequality and Development -- Income Inequality and Labour -- Unions and … Democracy -- Part II (In)decent Work -- Decent Work for Change -- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing -- What Is …

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International Differences in Male Wage Inequality : Institutions Versus Market Forces

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 1998

countries. We find that the greater overall U.S. wage dispersion primarily reflects substantially more compression at the bottom …

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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000

deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …

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Skills, economic crises and labour market

Dasgupta, Kabir; Plum, Alexander - 2022

Do higher skills help mitigate the negative impact of economic crises? We study the effect of two major economic setbacks–the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007-09 and the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020–on wage progression for New Zealanders with different skill levels. For our analysis, we...

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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison

Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...

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