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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Earnings inequality"”.
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
… For Australia, two of these have been increasing inequality of earnings and the growth in alternative forms of employment arrangements. For the US and a number of other countries, the prevailing explanation for the increase in inequality centres on the notion of skill-biased technological change …
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Essays on institutions and earnings inequality
This thesis describes and analyzes the earnings inequality in the United Kingdom and related countries in particular Italy and Germany, incorporating institutional measures and changes. There are three main tasks: firstly, Chapter 2 shows that earnings inequality as well as skill premiums have …
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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… doctoral thesis analyses the changes in income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. The thesis adds to the existing literature by explaining the underlying causes of the changes in observed income inequality. As such, this thesis applies different decomposition methods to the Gini …
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Immigration, Local Labor Markets, and Earnings Inequality in Micropolitan America
… and local labor market characteristics on earnings inequality among full-time year-round workers in micropolitan areas in the United States for the years 2006-2008. Micropolitan areas are essentially small town communities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000 located outside …
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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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The invisible color line and the forgotten gender : gender-race earnings inequality between European-American women and Chicanas/Latinas, 1980 and 1990
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa
… century. This is followed by a review of work on earnings functions and modelling South African trade unions in chapter 2. The aim of this chapter is to show what work has been done in the area of earnings functions and trade unions. It also highlights the contribution of this paper as analysing …
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Intergenerational mobility in South Africa: how much has South Africa changed since the early 1990s?
… high rates of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. These unfortunate realities have their roots in the country's colonial and apartheid past, the legacy of which continues to influence the post-apartheid socioeconomic outcomes. This thesis examines changes over time in the relationship …
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Financial development, credit rationing and the distribution of income: South Africa 1913-2008
… financial development and credit constraints on earnings inequality in the country between 1923 and 2008. The time-span is particularly interesting, as it includes three distinct political regimes: colonialism, apartheid and democracy.
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
… studies labor market disparities and inequality in the United States. The focus is to investigate the determinants of gaps in various labor market outcomes over the life cycle between different demographic groups and to study whether the increased earnings inequality over the past …
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Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa
This paper constructs an Inequality of Opportunities framework for South Africa and seeks to establish whether earnings inequality therein has been driven by differing circumstances or variations in efforts. The analysis has been performed on a 2008 cross-sectional South African dataset, proxying …
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Essays on Spatial Inequalities in Income and Education: Econometric Evidence from Pakistan
… study investigates the evolution and trend of earnings income distribution in Pakistan between 1993 and 2006—a period characterised by macroeconomic reforms and a decent average GDP growth rate. Specifically, it shows the extent to which changes in the returns to human capital have …
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Changes in inequality in South Africa : the effect of human capital on inequality using decomposition techniques
This paper analyses changes in the inequality of employment earnings in South Africa between 1993 and 2008. This is done through the implementation of a relatively new method of comparing the contributions of various factors to observed changes in incomes distributions. Counterfactual earnings …
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Wage structures and employment outcomes in New Zealand, and their relationship to technological change
After 100 years at an historically low level, inequality began to rise in the late 20th century, a trend which was especially marked in the English-speaking countries including New Zealand. Various explanations have been advanced, but internationally the most favoured theory is skill-biased …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… The second article of my thesis is titled 'Inequality resulting from mismatch between mothers' actual and desired labour supply'. I provide evidence that earnings inequality amongst females, driven by the heterogeneous impact of motherhood on females' labour supply, is more pronounced than …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… The second article of my thesis is titled 'Inequality resulting from mismatch between mothers' actual and desired labour supply'. I provide evidence that earnings inequality amongst females, driven by the heterogeneous impact of motherhood on females' labour supply, is more pronounced than …
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Determinants of Earnings for Asian Immigrants in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
This thesis examines the determinants of earnings for Asian immigrants in the Midwest of the United States. It tests simultaneously three theoretical explanations--assimilation, human capital, and job competition--for the earnings attainment of three major Asian groups: Asian Indian, Vietnamese, …
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Essays on the youth and low-skilled labor market
… the effect of state and federal minimum wages on earnings inequality over 1979 to 2007, exploiting substantially longer state-level wage panels than were available to earlier analyses as well as a proliferation of recent state minimum wage laws. We obtain identification using cross-state and …
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Essays on Human Capital and Inequality
… conducts positive and normative analysis of inequality based on human capital theory. In Chapter 2, we document important differences in early child investments by family income and study four leading mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: intergenerational ability correlation, consumption …
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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 …