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Peru: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Earnings Decomposition methods InequalityBook Chapter
Data and methodologyFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Data Earnings MethodologyBook
Tasks, skills, and institutions: The changing nature of work and inequalityBOOK IN PRODUCTION – ESTIMATED FOR PUBLICATION IN SUMMER 2023 Developed countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expen...
Inequality Earnings Labour marketWorking Paper
COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the worldThis paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America)...
Informal economy Economic impact COVID-19Journal Article
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Canada Earnings Economic integrationSeminar
The keynote address at the IRSA 16th Annual Conference — Kunal SenKunal Sen is invited to give the Keynote Address at the 2021 Indonesian Regional Science Association's (IRSA) Annual Conference on 12 July. Professor Sen speaks on the main lessons from UNU-WIDER's project on ' The changing nature of...
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Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdataOverall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver of inequality...
Inequality Earnings Tax dataBook Chapter
South Africa: The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequalityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataWorking Paper
Inequality and the changing nature of work in PeruThis paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004–18...
Earnings Decomposition methods InequalityWorking Paper
Transforming informal work and livelihoods in ChinaThe informal sector has long been viewed as a locus of the disadvantaged, unskilled, and inexperienced workers in under-developed and developing economies...
China Informal sector LivelihoodsWorking Paper
Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy: Long-term evidence from IndonesiaWe use long-spanning individual longitudinal data to examine the long-term labour market outcomes of low-tier informal workers...
Earnings Indonesia Informal sectorWorking Paper
Wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South AfricaThis paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality through the earnings heterogeneity channel under the inflation-targeting regime implemented in South Africa since 2000...
Earnings Earnings inequality InequalityPolicy Brief
Reducing inequalities in South Africa: Progress on equality thwarted by slow growth and success of top earnersSouth Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted...
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataWorking Paper
Earnings and employment microdata in South AfricaTraditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period...
Administrative data Data sources EarningsWorking Paper
Taking stock of South African income inequalityWe synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa’s very high income inequality...
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataJournal Article
Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
Inequality Ethnicity Schooling