Earnings Inequality in Production NetworksThis paper investigates the importance of firm-to-firm production network linkages for earnings inequality. We develop a quantitative model in which heterogeneoHuneeus, FedericoKroft, KoryLim, KevinSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Caseworkers must consider local labor demand in their assignment decisions. Therefore, I include detailed regional information and condition on state dummies and the share of the employed in the production industry per local employment district. Table 3. Overview of potential confounders and available ...
The main emphasis is on earnings inequality per se, however, and so this study does not consider decompositions of the formal-informal sector earnings gap. The scope of Koettl (2010) is also on informality in Serbia but focusing on the relationship between labor taxation and benefit design, ...
This paper addresses the question to what extent the association between partners' earnings matters for inequality between couples. First, we organize the existing literature to explain why studies come to a large variety of conclusions despite using, on occasions, the same data. Second, we use da...
This section presents an overview of the analysis of gender inequality in wages, focusing particularly on the recent search for new explanations of its persistence. Over recent decades, this gap has narrowed in many OECD countries, but the trend of convergence now seems to be very slow, if not...
Thus extended income, which includes the value of household production, should be more equally distributed than money income. We find this to be true, but not for the reason predicted by theory. Virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended income...