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Growing Income Inequalities in Advanced Countries

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  • Nathalie Chusseau
  • Michel Dumont

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Since the early eighties, advanced countries have experienced an increase in wage inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers. The economic literature has proposed several explanations for this increase. This can be implemented from a Demand-Supply-Institution framework (Katz and Autor, 1999; Acemoglu, 1998, 2005). Considering the markets for skilled and unskilled labour, any factor that modifies the demands for and supplies of skilled and unskilled workers indeed affects the skill premium (ratio of the wage of skilled on the wage of unskilled workers), and thus the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. Supply-side factors such as education, training, skill obsolescence, migration and demand-side factors have been analysed and estimated in an abundant literature.

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  • Nathalie Chusseau & Michel Dumont, 2013. "Growing Income Inequalities in Advanced Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Joël Hellier & Nathalie Chusseau (ed.), Growing Income Inequalities, chapter 1, pages 13-47, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28330-6_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137283306_2
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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