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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Earnings Distribution"”.
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Assessing the Impact of Minimum Wage on South Africa's Earnings distribution
… of individuals at the bottom end of the wage distribution. The mainstay of analysis for minimum wage is the impact on employment. To this end, the paper will flesh out the history of minimum wages and contextualize them through their role in improving welfare. In February 2017, the National …
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Labour market inequality in South Africa: a decomposition of changes in earnings from 2001 to 2011
… has increased inequality at the top of the earnings distribution, whilst similarly, strong growth below the median has decreased inequality at the bottom of the distribution. This paper uses the 'task' approach alongside a Recentred Influence Function decomposition framework to explore the …
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Three essays on earnings and earnings inequality in Hong Kong: 1991-2011
… by-census datasets to examine three features of earnings in Hong Kong: overall earnings inequality; gender earnings gap; and earnings differences between immigrants and natives. By conducting a counterfactual analysis, I find that a significant portion of the changes in earnings inequality is due …
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Benchmark beating and its implications for earnings management : the role of context specific capital market incentives and analysts' cash flow forecasts
… and the extent to which it is likely to reflect earnings management. To address this issue, the thesis considers two links between benchmark beating and earnings management, and these are outlined in two separate research papers/chapters. These are: (1) Earnings Management Incentives and Intra- …
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A quantile regression analysis of the conditional female wage distribution in post-apartheid South Africa
… has been studied extensively in terms of mean earnings. However, because of the heterogenous distribution of South African labour force participants, a mean analysis is not sufficient. This paper investigates changes in the post-Apartheid conditional earnings distribution of women in South …
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ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POLICIES ON HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME INEQUALITY
… Using two different methodological approaches—a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach—I find that increased rates of bachelor’s and associate degree attainment would meaningfully increase economic security for lower-income individuals, reduce poverty and near-poverty, and shrink …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… First Job Act. It exploits changes in the labor earnings distribution to measure how the policy change affected net employment, the relative sizes of the formal and informal labor markets, and the subsidy's excess burden. The results indicate the policy caused sizable shifts of workers across the …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… immigration enforcement program—on the native earnings and wage distributions. Previous studies found that SC activation reduces the labor supply of likely undocumented immigrants by about 7% (East et al., 2020). Using unconditional quantile regression (UQR), I find the disproportionate impact …
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Essays On Labor Economics And Public Policy
… in the first chapter, is an investigation of earnings instability, which can be thought of as the fluctuations around permanent earnings over time of a worker's labor market earnings. This chapter reflects my interests in labor economics and in economic analysis using longitudinal, linked …
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Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
… the contribution of firms to the gender gap in earnings at different deciles of the earnings distribution, by age and cohort, and over time. Using a linked employer-employee dataset for Italy, covering the universe of workers in the private sector, we show that the gap in firm pay policy …
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Education and Meritocracy in China: The Role of Degrees in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
… at various points across the income or earnings distribution in either generation. Moreover, there has been comparatively less attention given to exploring the heterogeneity of mobility transmission across different social and geographical groups. Additionally, the empirical …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two topics in labor economics: the distribution of earnings and the effect of social networks on starting wage. </p><p>Chapter 1, co-authored with Professor Hugo Jales, evaluates theoretical models of the distribution of earnings. The shape of the distribution of earnings in a …