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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...
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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile
Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242
In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section …
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Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys: 1957 - 2007
Sanhueza, Claudia; Mayer, Ricardo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 169-193
Using household surveys that cover more than 50 years of the political and economic history of Chile, we investigate … changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top 1% incomes. In line … correspond approximately with different economic policy regimes prevailing in Chile. We observe important changes in the …
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Estabilidad en la desigualdad: Chile 1990 - 2003
Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 295-329
This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...
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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth: The Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010
Contreras, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012
Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …
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The Finnish developmental state and its growth regime
Jäntti, Markus; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2009
This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive mobilization of resources during this period, reflected mostly in a high rate of capital accumulation for manufacturing industries. This was achieved by an unorthodox combination of...
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Die Flat Tax: Wer gewinnt? Wer verliert? Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland
Schaefer, Thilo; Peichl, Andreas; Fuest, Clemens - 2006
-Reformvarianten in Deutschland auf die Einkommensverteilung auswirken würde, und wer die Gewinner und Verlierer dieser Reformvarianten …
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Makroökonomische Rahmenbedingungen und die Einkommensverteilung: Welchen Einfluss hat die Finanzkrise?
Berthold, Norbert; Brunner, Alexander; Zenzen, Jupp - 2010
Finanzkrise auf die Ungleichheit. Unter der Annahme, dass sich diese als (negativer) exogener Wachstumsschock manifestiert, ist zu …
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer … Wohlfahrt, Ungleichheit und Armut. Dies gilt vor allem für länderspezifische Analysen und/oder für länderübergreifende …
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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992
Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290122