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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers...

  • Wage inequality
  • Polarization
  • Skills
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution

In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on...

  • Routinization
  • Wage inequality
  • Tasks
Book Chapter
Chile: employment and inequality trends

Part of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions

  • Wage inequality
  • Polarization
  • Skills
Blog
Pay inequality is high in South Africa: Bosses are part of the problem
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by Ihsaan Bassier

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world . This income inequality is mostly due to high unemployment and large differences in...

  • Wage inequality
  • Firm behaviour
Book Chapter
Tunisia: employment and inequality trends

Part of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions

  • Wage inequality
  • Occupations
  • Education premium
Book Chapter
China: employment and inequality trends

Part of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions

  • Occupations
  • Wage inequality
  • Education
Working Paper
The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China

This paper examines the evolution of China’s industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive tasks...

  • Occupations
  • Wage inequality
  • Education
Seminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
2 December 2020
Online, South Africa
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Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India

Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers in India...

  • Minimum wage
  • Wage inequality
  • India
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Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of education...

  • Returns to education
  • Wage inequality
  • Educational expansion
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