Search for dissertations about: "Wage Inequality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words Wage Inequality.
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1. The Mystery of Inequality : Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Abstract : Essay I (with Daniel Waldenström): We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups by constructing a new database that covers 68 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2018. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has fallen, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped by 15 points and the earnings share of the world’s poorest half doubled. READ MORE
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2. Roads from Unemployment : Institutional Complementarities in Product and Labor Markets
Abstract : Bringing down unemployment is a top priority for governments across the industrialized world, regardless of ideological bent. What is at issue in the political debate is not if unemployment should be combatted, but by what means. READ MORE
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3. Essays on the dynamics of wage inequality
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4. Mind the Gap : Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality
Abstract : The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. READ MORE
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5. Two Essays on Income Inequality in Chile
Abstract : This first paper summarizes the explanations given to the level and change of income and earnings inequality in Chile in the last decades. Education has been found to be a key factor behind earnings inequality in Chile, explaining 9-40%, depending on the survey, definition of income, year, method, and sample used. READ MORE