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Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

Journal of Economic Literature
Despite rising inequality in rich countries, many developing economies have experienced a decline in inequality in recent decades. Brazil is a notable example. From 1995 to 2015, its Gini index decreased from 58 to 48 points.
Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella
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International Transmission of Inequality through Trade

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
I examine the international transmission of income inequality through trade. Using firm-level and aggregate data, I find that exporting to more unequal countries increases domestic inequality.
Sergey Nigai
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Non-linear Dynamics of Trade Openness and Income Inequality: New Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis

Foreign Trade Review
This study examines the non-linear relationship between trade openness and income inequality in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) over the period 1990–2020.
Aadil Amin, Masroor Ahmad, Asif Tariq
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A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason

Journal of Economic Literature
This essay provides a streamlined presentation of stratification economics (SE) in three pillars and comments on Patrick L. Mason’s (2023) book The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets.
Stephan Lefebvre
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Time to Say Goodbye: The Macroeconomic Implications of Termination Notice

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Insuring households against unemployment risk is a cornerstone of modern economic policy. Many countries provide unemployment insurance partly by employment protection mandates, most commonly using termination notice mandates.
Tomer Ifergane
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Racial Inequality in France

Social Science Research Network
We study racial inequality in 21 st century France. Using parents’ nationality at birth, we overcome the lack of ethno-racial statistics stemming from the country’s “color-blind” approach.
Yajna Govind   +2 more
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The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript Dorms

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
To what extent is economic success determined by with whom individuals interact socially? We tackle this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment in the Finnish conscription.
Elias Einiö
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Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility

The American Economic Review
We argue that consumer credit spreads matter for household choices and that time-varying spreads have important distributional consequences. Studying Danish household data, we show that consumer credit spreads have heterogeneous impact on asset dynamics ...
Renato Faccini   +4 more
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The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters

The Review of financial studies
When a macroeconomic shock arrives, variation in household balance sheet health (captured by the presence of financial distress, or “FD”) leads to differential access to credit and hence a distribution in consumption responses.
José Mustre-del-Ŕıo   +3 more
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