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The Chilean Labor Market: Job Creation, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Future Challenges

Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper analyzes recent labor market developments in the Chilean economy. The evidence shows a booming labor market with strong job creation since 2010. Most of the jobs created during the past three years are quality jobs—that is, jobs with a written contract and whose employers have made...

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

occured simultaneously, is the reduction of the total factor productivity during the emergence of the computerage - the so … called productivity paradox. This contribution offers a simple unified solution to both of these puzzles and explains the … share of individuals who choose a less productive qualification may lead to a transitory slowdown of the productivity growth …

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New financial development indicators: with a critical contribution to inequality empirics

Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...

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How do financial reforms affect inequality through financial sector competition? Evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial sector competition, we contribute at the same time to the macroeconomic literature on measuring financial development and respond to the growing field of economic development...

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A Decade of Economics Reforms: Whither Employment?

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period. The workforce structure is exhibiting upward mobility across wage classes, moving towards regular employment, and...

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Education and Inequality: Evidence from Spain

Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

How do the family and personal characteristics of an individual influence his/her edu-cational attainment? How do the labour market prospects change when he/she receives further education? This article intends to answer these two questions. To that purpose, it reviews the most recent literature...

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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but...

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Recent changes in wage inequality in Argentina. The role of labor formalization and other factors

Luis, Beccaria; Roxana, Maurizio; Vazquez, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In the last decade Argentina experienced a process of wage inequality reduction that is in stark contrast with the trends of the previous decade. The purpose of this study is to analyze the contribution of different factors to this process. The method employed is a decomposition proposed by...

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Economic Inequality in Portugal: A Picture in the Beginnings of the 21st century

Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This article uses data from the 1994-2001 waves of the European Community Household Panel to study economic inequality in Portugal. It reports data on the Portuguese distributions of income, labor earnings, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such as age, employment...

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Gender Disparity in Education – An Eritrean Perspective

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls at all levels. Gender inequality has become a...

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