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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality
, 1998This paper considers an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector.
D. Acemoglu
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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008A recent revisionist literature characterizes the pronounced rise in U.S. wage inequality since 1980 as an episodic event of the first half of the 1980s driven by nonmarket factors (particularly a falling real minimum wage) and concludes that continued ...
David Autor +2 more
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Social Science Research, 2017
Kelley and Evans (2017) found that income inequality (measured at the societal level) did not affect individual well-being in advanced societies but increased individual well-being in developing societies. This paper discusses how this empirical patterning of the inequality-well-being relationship may arise from mechanisms related to the relationship ...
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Kelley and Evans (2017) found that income inequality (measured at the societal level) did not affect individual well-being in advanced societies but increased individual well-being in developing societies. This paper discusses how this empirical patterning of the inequality-well-being relationship may arise from mechanisms related to the relationship ...
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Inequality (Measurement) [PDF]
, 2008 This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion in the second edition of The New Palgrave.
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The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
, 2016Cross-national research on the causes and consequences of income inequality has been hindered by the limitations of existing inequality datasets: greater coverage across countries and over time is available from these sources only at the cost of ...
F. Solt
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, 2006
In this article, the author addresses two feminist issues: first, how to conceptualize intersectionality, the mutual reproduction of class, gender, and racial relations of inequality, and second, how to identify barriers to creating equality in work ...
Joan Acker
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In this article, the author addresses two feminist issues: first, how to conceptualize intersectionality, the mutual reproduction of class, gender, and racial relations of inequality, and second, how to identify barriers to creating equality in work ...
Joan Acker
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment ...
Owen O'Donnell +2 more
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The Tyranny of Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 Abstract When parties are very unequally endowed, agreement may be very difficult to reach, even if the specific transaction is easy to contract on, and fungible resources can be transferred to compensate the losing party. The very fungibility of the resource transferred makes it hard to restrict its use, changing the amount the parties involved ...
Luigi Zingales +5 more
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Wealth inequality and carbon inequality
Ecological EconomicsInternational ...
Apeti, Ablam Estel +3 more
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Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Science, 2006Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that “the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox
Matthew J. Salganik, P. Dodds, D. Watts
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