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Education and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Review of the Empirical Literature [PDF]

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The wage inequality is characterized by its stability, although a more detailed analysis reveals structural differences, especially between ...
Weber, Andrea Maria, Ammermüller, Andreas   +1 more
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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil [PDF]

Using nationally representative, economy-wide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premiums; industry and economy-wide skill premiums; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage ...
Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe G., Wai-Poi, Matthew   +2 more
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Fair Wage Hypothesis, Foreign Capital Inflow and Skilled-unskilled Wage Inequality in the Presence of Agricultural Dualism [PDF]

The paper develops a four-sector general equilibrium model where the fair wage hypothesis is valid and there is agricultural dualism for analyzing the consequence of an inflow of foreign capital on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality and the ...
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit
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Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures

Sociological Science
Prior research finds that rising labor market inequality in the United States was abetted by structural changes in the economy: a consolidation of occupation and organizational bases of advantage; rising within-job inequality; and declining pay and ...
Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers
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Education and wage inequality in Europe [PDF]

In this paper we apply a quantile regression (QR) approach to the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in eight European countries.
Marco Biagetti, Sergio Scicchitano
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Does foreign direct investment affect wage inequality? An empirical investigation [PDF]

We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality.
Holger Görg, Paolo Figini
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Skill-Biased Technical Change and Wage Inequality: The U.S. versus Europe [PDF]

This paper analyzes the effect of the recent technical change on the labor market and explains the observed differences in wage inequality among advanced countries. In particular, we focus on the difference between the wage inequality in the U.S.
Ryosuke Okazawa
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education [PDF]

This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We document increases
Stephen Machin, Joanne Lindley
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Firm-level bargaining and within-firm wage inequality: Evidence across Europe

International Labour Review
The decentralization of wage-setting – from multi-employer bargaining to firm-level agreements – allows firms to adjust their internal wage structure but has uncertain effects on inequality.
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Firms' Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality [PDF]

This paper provides some empirical evidence and a theory of the relationship between residual wage inequality and the increasing dispersion of capital/labor ratios across firms.
Leonardi, Marco
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