Browsing by Keyword "Wage distribution"

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Identification and estimation of distributional impacts of interventions using changes in inequality measures

Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Pinto, Cristine
2016-05

This paper presents estimators of distributional impacts of interventions when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts are calculated as differences in inequality measures ...
Informality in an economy with active labour courts

Araújo, Luís; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
2016-06

Job regulations and the justice branch interfere on several aspects of labour contracts. We build a model which explores the role of labour courts on the wage distribution in both formal and informal sectors. We obtain ...
Matching, sorting, and the distributional effects of international trade

Grossman, Gene M.
2014-08-01

We study the distributional consequences of trade in a world with two industries and two heterogeneous factors of production. Productivity in each production unit reáects the ability of the manager and the abilities of the ...