Decomposing Wage Inequality Change Using General Equilibrium Models [PDF]
This paper presents ex post decomposition analysis of wage inequality change using multi-sector general equilibrium models. The analytical structure used is a specific- factors model of trade, which we calibrate to UK data for the two years 1979 and 1975.
John Whalley, Lisandro Abrego
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries [PDF]
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995.
Martins, Pedro Silva +1 more
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Skill Formation, Capital Adjustment Cost and Wage Inequality [PDF]
The paper employs a three-sector general equilibrium model for examining the consequences of an infrastructure development scheme to the education sector and an inflow of foreign capital on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a developing economy ...
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit, Yabuuchi, Shigemi
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Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matter [PDF]
The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The primary purpose of this paper is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South ...
Julien GOURDON
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Exporters and the Rise in Wage Inequality – Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data [PDF]
Using a linked employer-employee data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the role of exporting establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion.
Daniel Baumgarten
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment [PDF]
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables
David H. Autor +2 more
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WP 18 - Permanent and transitory wage inequality of British men, 1975-2001: Year, age and cohort effects [PDF]
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects.
Alessie, R., Adriaan Kalwij
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Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual output increase within-firm wage inequality, while ...
Haegeland, Torbjørn +3 more
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Residual Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007 [PDF]
We use three waves of urban household survey data from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants. First, we describe the change of overall and residual wage inequality over time.
Xing, Chunbing
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Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada [PDF]
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the link between unionization and wage inequality in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality in ...
Thomas Lemieux +2 more
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