Climbing the Economic Ladder: Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Mobility among Thai Formal Workers
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- Muthitacharoen, Athiphat & Burong, Trongwut, 2023. "Climbing the economic ladder: Earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
- Athiphat Muthitacharoen & Trongwut Burong, 2023. "Climbing the Economic Ladder: Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Mobility among Thai Formal Workers," PIER Discussion Papers 196, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research.
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intragenerational earnings mobility; inequality;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2023-02-20 (Development)
- NEP-LMA-2023-02-20 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-SEA-2023-02-20 (South East Asia)
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