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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Wage Inequality"”.
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Temporary migration and wage inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand
… the relationship between temporary migration and wage inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand. The transition in migration policy preferences in Aotearoa New Zealand, moving away from traditional source countries to a human capital regime, and subsequent changes in policies, particularly in the past …
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… examines trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing wage differentials within firms, which contradict the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem. Additionally, when …
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… general well-beings of the working population-- wage inequality and wage health insurance-- are studied. This thesis consists three chapters. In the first chapter, we (co-authored) examine the effects of corporate restructuring on wage patterns and inequality in a Fortune 500 firm. We show that …
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Have falling tariffs raised wage inequality in South Africa?
… comments on a possible relationship between wage inequality and trade liberalisation in South Africa. Several unique contributions are made here: first, the above-mentioned relationship is tested using mandated-wage regressions that were based on the zero-profit condition; second, the impact …
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Wage inequality and the role of pre-market skills
… of pre-market skills to examine an aspect of wage inequality in the U.S. labor market. Chapter One analyzes the factors associated with the change in the gender wage gap for young workers. I decompose the change in the gender wage gap over the entire wage distribution into factors associated …
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Regional wage inequality in the United States furniture industry
This study investigates regional average hourly wage differences in the United States furniture industry. County level census data used to compare average wages in the South with average wages in the non-South showed a considerably lower wage structure in the South. Regression models suggest wage …
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Essays on minimum wages and declining wage inequality in Latin America
… thesis studies the factors behind the declining wage inequality in Latin America, focusing on minimum wage policies. Chapter 1 studies potential explanations of the declining wage inequality in Brazil such as changes in demographic/skill composition, wage structure, occupations/sectors and …
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Wage Inequality: A Gender and Race Analysis of South African Wages between 1994 and 2015
This paper examines wage inequality among the eight race-gender cohorts in South Africa between 1994 and 2015 by using the 1994 October Household Survey and four waves of the 2015 Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Wage inequality is estimated using the Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient, General Entropy …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… In the third chapter, the recent pattern of wage inequality is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation finds the role of industry capital intensity and firm productivity in the differential choices of global sourcing such as vertical FDI and foreign …
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Three essays on international trade
… of three essays about international trade and wage inequality. Essay I characterizes optimal trade and FDI policies in a model with monopolistic competition and firm-level heterogeneity similar to Helpman et al. (2004). I find that both the optimal import tariffs and the optimal FDI subsidies …
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Essays on Structural Transformation and Inequality
… interest rate remains relatively constant and wage rate rises, the labor income share in GDP diminishes over time, and the capital income share increases. The ease with which labor can be replaced with capital in the capital-intensive sector and consumers' preferences for how to combine the two …
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Assessing the Impact of Minimum Wage on South Africa's Earnings distribution
The topic of minimum wage has been of interest for a long time and particularly its potential in addressing wage inequality and ultimately improve the livelihoods of the most marginalized. South Africa has high prevalence of inequality and poverty and the minimum wage is touted as a potential …
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Labour market inequality in South Africa: a decomposition of changes in earnings from 2001 to 2011
The relatively stable overall wage inequality in South Africa between 2001 and 2011 has hidden two distinct trends. Strong growth above the median for high wage earners has increased inequality at the top of the earnings distribution, whilst similarly, strong growth below the median has decreased …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
… the effect of globalization on welfare and inequality both between- and within-countries. The first essay proposes a Roy-like model where workers are heterogeneous ill terms of their comparative and absolute advantage. We show that the schedules of comparative and absolute advantage (i) …
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The Changing Structure of Inequality in Canada: A Multi-Level Analysis of Licensing and Education Effects on Wages Within and Across Occupations
… licensing has thus contributed to increasing wage inequality. Using Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey and a database of occupational regulations collected from public data sources, I explore the wage effects of licensing and it interacts with other occupational characteristics. This …
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Studies of labour markets in countries in transition in South East Europe
… Surveys (2001-2005), I find that the gender wage gap is still very low in Serbia, and is even decreasing during this period. However, decompositions that apply the Oaxaca (1974) methodology reveal that the unexplained component of the gap is very large, and is increasing. Likewise, quantile …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… why firms play a prominent role in the rise of wage inequality observed in Germany over recent decades. The final, co-authored chapter focuses on the business-cycle dynamics of labor markets and examines how firms’ behavioral adjustments to uncertainty shocks transmit to aggregate unemployment. …
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The impact of the European Union-South Africa free trade area agreement on factor returns in South Africa: much ado about nothing?
… decline in relative terms. This will increase inequality in the returns of capital and labour or skilled- and unskilled-workers in developed countries. The converse will prevail in developing countries where trade liberalisation stands to reduce wage inequality. What becomes germane to the …
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From Wallets to Wages: Consumer Income, Job Design, and Pay Disparities
… between organizations are a key source of wage inequality. I propose a novel account of these differences by starting from the consumers that these businesses serve. Firms that serve high-income consumers specialize jobs into higher-paying and higher-skilled positions focused on quality, …
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